Slavery

Name: Slavery
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9781108053150
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ISBN: 9781108053150

by William Ellery Channing

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Format Paperback / softback

Book Series Cambridge Library Collection - Slavery and Abolition

ISBN-10 1108053157

ISBN-13 9781108053150

Publisher Cambridge University Press

Imprint Cambridge University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Aug 29th, 2013

Print length 108 Pages

Weight 154 grams

Dimensions 13.80 x 21.60 x 1.10 cms

Product Classification: History of the Americas Slavery & abolition of slavery History of the Americas Slavery, enslaved persons and abolition of slavery

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Published in 1836, this work by the Unitarian preacher William Ellery Channing (1780–1842) reveals the difficulties he had in questioning a practice with which he had grown up. Although firmly against the institution of slavery, he thought slaves incapable of governing themselves, and slaveholders deserving of consideration and patience.

In the years preceding the American Civil War, religion was at the heart of the debate over slavery. William Ellery Channing (1780–1842) had rejected the strict Calvinism of his background to become the leading Unitarian spokesman and preacher, and in later life he began to address the subject of slavery. Published in 1836, this work was Channing's most substantial contribution to the debate, revealing the real difficulties men such as Channing had in questioning a practice with which they had grown up. He vacillates between contempt for the institution and empathy for the slaveholders, writing, 'I do not intend to pass sentence on the character of the slave-holder.' He sees black slaves as humans, but not of equal status with white people. The final chapter is particularly prescient: 'There is a great dread … that the union of the States may be dissolved by the conflict about slavery.'

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