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All honor to Jefferson? : the Virginia slavery debates and the positive good thesis

"Virginia's most prominent statesmen had a profound influence on the American Founding. Of the first five presidents elected, four of them were Virginians. Old Dominion thus held an influential position in the Union. The Founders reluctantly tolerated slavery, yet every leading Founder believed that slavery was wrong. They based this argument on the natural rights all men possessed
Print Book, English, ©2008
Lexington Books, Lanham, MD, ©2008
History
vii, 255 pages ; 24 cm
9780739122174, 9780739122181, 0739122177, 0739122185
180689971
Early anti-slavery efforts
Jefferson, Virginia, and the founders
The tide begins to turn: the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1829-1830 and the attack on natural rights
Firebell in the night: natural rights abandoned
Toward perpetual slavery: the Virginia slavery debate of 1831-1832
The proslavery argument revisited: Thomas Roderick Dew and the beginning of the positive good thesis
Conclusion: Virginia and the positive good thesis
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