Amelioration and empire : progress and slavery in the plantation Americas

Amelioration and empire : progress and slavery in the plantation Americas /

"This book examines arguments made in the colonial Americas for the gradual mitigation of slavery rather than outright abolition"--Provided by publisher

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dierksheide, Christa, 1980-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2014.
Series:Jeffersonian America.
Subjects:
Antislavery movements > Great Britain > History.
Antislavery movements > America > History.
Progress > Social aspects > America > History.
Plantation life > America > History.
Enslaved persons > America > Social conditions.
Slave trade > America > History.
Slavery > Political aspects > America > History.
Slavery > America > History.
Great Britain > Colonies > America > History.
America > History > To 1810.
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Description
Summary:"This book examines arguments made in the colonial Americas for the gradual mitigation of slavery rather than outright abolition"--Provided by publisher
Physical Description:1 online resource (280 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780813936222
0813936225
Language:English.
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.

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