Equality and Gradual Abolition in Early National Virginia
The declining value of enslaved labor in Virginia, the growing free Black populations in bordering states, and the rumblings of a slave revolt in St. Domingue supplied economic and demographic evidence that maintaining the labor market status quo contradicted the interests of white elites. In the re...
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Veröffentlicht in: | The Virginia magazine of history and biography 2024-01, Vol.132 (1), p.3-32 |
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Zusammenfassung: | The declining value of enslaved labor in Virginia, the growing free Black populations in bordering states, and the rumblings of a slave revolt in St. Domingue supplied economic and demographic evidence that maintaining the labor market status quo contradicted the interests of white elites. In the realm of religious liberty, for instance, Philip Hamburger shows that ambiguous understandings of equal protection and equal privileges undergirded most discussions of repressing dissenters. [...]it traces the development of each plan, paying particular attention to the manner in which the gradual abolitionists built upon and reacted to their predecessors' conceptions of equality. Establishing the meaning of equality and deducing its political mandates, then, required gradual abolitionists to confront two questions posed by William Laurence Brown in a tract that St. George Tucker assigned his law students: "I. In what respects may men be said to be equal? II. |
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ISSN: | 0042-6636 2330-1317 1940-4050 |