An Essay on Liberty and Slavery |
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| Author:
| Bledsoe, Albert |
| ISBN: | 978-0-692-43570-0 |
| Publication Date: | May 2015 |
| Publisher: | Confederate Reprint Company, The
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $15.99 |
Book Description:
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Was Southern slavery at odds with true liberty? To the contrary, the author clearly shows in this outstanding treatise that Southern slavery as it existed in the Nineteenth Century went a long way toward preserving the fragile social order by denying liberty to those who were as yet unprepared to make proper use of it. This book also demonstrates that the agenda of the Abolitionist movement of the mid-1860s was to utterly destroy constitutional government and to substitute a lawless...
More DescriptionWas Southern slavery at odds with true liberty? To the contrary, the author clearly shows in this outstanding treatise that Southern slavery as it existed in the Nineteenth Century went a long way toward preserving the fragile social order by denying liberty to those who were as yet unprepared to make proper use of it. This book also demonstrates that the agenda of the Abolitionist movement of the mid-1860s was to utterly destroy constitutional government and to substitute a lawless egalitarianism (slavery for all) in its place.