| A House Divided: The Antebellum Slavery Debates in America, 1776-1865 Subjects: Slavery -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- Sources; Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- Sources; Slavery -- United States -- Justification -- History -- Sources; United States -- Politics and government -- 1775–1783 -- So; This anthology brings together under one cover the most important abolitionist and--unique to this volume--proslavery documents written in the United States between the American Revolution and the Civil War. It makes accessible to students, scholars, and general readers the breadth of the slavery debate. Including many previously inaccessible documents, A House Divided is a critical and welcome contribution to a literature that includes only a few volumes of antislavery writings and no volumes of proslavery documents in print. Mason I. Lowance, Jr. , is Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is the author of The Language of Canaan: Metaphor and Symbol in New England from the Puritans to the Transcendentalists and Increase Mather and the editor of Against Slavery: An Abolitionist Reader and The Stowe Debate: Rhetorical Strategies in Uncle Tom's Cabin . |