Evil Necessity: Slavery and Political Culture in Antebellum Kentucky 0813184452, 9780813184456

In Kentucky, the slavery debate raged for thirty years before the Civil War began. While whites in the lower South argue

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Evil Necessity: Slavery and Political Culture in Antebellum Kentucky
0813184452, 9780813184456

A lively exploration of this nineteenth-century reform movement, The Abolitionist Sisterhood includes chapters on the pr

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Although an important part of local government, particularly in the South, in their early years the county courts have n

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This provocative book draws from a variety of sources—literature, politics, folklore, social history—to attempt to set S

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This is a study of Kentucky political parties: how they are organized and how they nominate and elect candidates. Becaus

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What role should the idea of evil have in contemporary moral and social thought? The concept of 'evil' has lon

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Enslavement and medicine historiography has not addressed the African's proactive participation in, and development

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Slavery, Surveillance, and Genre in Antebellum United States Literature argues for the existence of deep, often unexamin

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Frederick Douglass and George Fitzhugh disagreed on virtually every major issue of the day. On slavery, women's rig

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