03939nam 2200733Ia 450 991082233330332120200520144314.00-8173-8125-2(CKB)2670000000030199(EBL)547671(OCoLC)650060153(SSID)ssj0000458041(PQKBManifestationID)11316908(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000458041(PQKBWorkID)10421397(PQKB)10176936(MdBmJHUP)muse8638(Au-PeEL)EBL547671(CaPaEBR)ebr10408252(MiAaPQ)EBC547671(EXLCZ)99267000000003019920080707d2009 ub 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtccrFanatical schemes proslavery rhetoric and the tragedy of consensus /Patricia Roberts-MillerTuscaloosa University of Alabama Pressc20091 online resource (298 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8173-1642-6 0-8173-5653-3 Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-274) and index.Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: "Industrious in scattering the seeds of insurrection"; 1. "Slavery shall not be discussed": The Political Power of the Irrational Rhetor; 2. "With firm, undaunted resolution": The Rhetoric of Doom; 3. "A deep conviction, settled on every bosom": Alarmism, Conspiracy, and Unification; 4. "For the sake of your wives, children and their posterity": Manly Politics; 5. "Careless of the Consequences": Extended Defenses of Slavery; 6. "Our laws to regulate slaves are entirely founded on terror": The Political Theory of Slave Codes7. "The Sweet Waters of Concord and Union": Pro slavery Rhetoric in a Deliberative Setting Conclusion: "Any rational plan": The Responsibilities of Rhetoric; Notes; Works Cited; IndexWhat was the relationship between rhetoric and slavery, and how did rhetoric fail as an alternative to violence, becoming instead its precursor? Fanatical Schemes is a study of proslavery rhetoric in the 1830's. A common understanding of the antebellum slavery debate is that the increased stridency of abolitionists in the 1830's, particularly the abolitionist pamphlet campaign of 1835, provoked proslavery politicians into greater intransigence and inflammatory rhetoric. Patricia Roberts-Miller argues that, on the contrary, inflammatory rhetoric was inhereSlaveryUnited StatesJustificationHistory19th centurySlaveryPolitical aspectsUnited StatesHistory19th centuryConsensus (Social sciences)United StatesHistory19th centuryRhetoricPolitical aspectsUnited StatesHistory19th centuryFanaticismUnited StatesHistory19th centuryPoliticiansUnited StatesHistory19th centuryAntislavery movementsUnited StatesHistory19th centuryAbolitionistsPolitical activityUnited StatesHistory19th centuryUnited StatesPolitics and government1829-1837United StatesPolitics and government1837-1841SlaveryJustificationHistorySlaveryPolitical aspectsHistoryConsensus (Social sciences)HistoryRhetoricPolitical aspectsHistoryFanaticismHistoryPoliticiansHistoryAntislavery movementsHistoryAbolitionistsPolitical activityHistory973.7/1Roberts-Miller Patricia1959-1621410MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910822333303321Fanatical schemes3954670UNINA