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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 4 0 Browse Search
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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Book III (continued) (search)
h learned erudition criticized the religious argument against slavery. Parson W. G. Brownlow of Tennessee, in a memorable debate with Abram Prynne, portrayed the advantages of Southern society over that of the North. Political economists also wrote in the defence. Edmund Ruffin of Virginia, successful planter, pioneer in scientific farming, and editor of agricultural journals, in his Political economy of slavery (1857) claimed blessings for the existing relation of master and slave. David Christy of Cincinnati in Cotton is King (1855) showed the place of the plantation system in the wealth of the nation and pointed out the need of more territory for slavery and the cultivation of cotton. These writings and others of minor importance are the record of a change in Southern opinion, the passing of the conviction that slavery is inherently wrong, to be abolished in the future, to as strong a conviction that slavery is right per se; they also mark the declining influence of Jeffers
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Index (search)
Chopin, Kate, 597 Chorus Lady, the, 295 Christ and Christmas, 531 Christian City, the, 223 Christian Examiner, 301, 303 Christianizing the Social Order, 216 n. Christian Missions and social progress, 212 Christian Pastor, the, 217 Christian Science, 527 Christian Union, 325 Christmas Trail, The, 161 Christophe Colombe, 185 Christopher Columbus and how he received and imparted the spirit of democracy, 187 Christopher Crowfield. See Stowe, Harriet Beecher Christy, David, 341 Churchill, Winston, 91, 287 Cicero, 445, 463, 471, 475, 538 Cid, 591 Cigarette-Maker's romance, a, 88 Cincinnati Volksblatt, 578 Cinderella man, the, 292 Circuit Rider, the, 76 City, the, 284 Civil government in great Britain, 354 Civil Government in the Philippines, 166 Civil government in the United States, 193 Civil liberty and self government, 342 Clansman, the, 267 Clapp, Henry, 36 Clarice, 286 Clark, Charles Badger, Jr., 161 Clark, Char