The Apologist Tradition: A Transitional Period in Southern Proslavery Thought, 1831-1845
Description:
Early antebellum defenders of slavery acknowledged that slavery created problems for southern society. They contended, however, that slave society was better and more natural than other forms of social organization. Thomas R. Dew, William Harper, and James Henry Hammond each expressed a social philosophy in which slavery had a crucial role in preserving social order. They argued from the basis of social organicism, the idea that society should have an elite that controlled the masses. For all t…
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Date:
December 2000
Creator:
Austin, Clara
Partner:
UNT Libraries