SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

PRIMARY SOURCES

Manuscripts

Alderman Library, University of Virginia Cocke Family Papers. Edgehill-Randolph Family Papers. McDowell, James Papers. Society for the Prevention of the absconding and abducting of slaves. Papers.

Earl Gregg Swem Library, College of William and Mary Brodnax, William Henry Papers Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers. John Thompson Brown Correspondence. Dew Family Papers Harrison, Francis Burton Papers

Library of Virginia Condemned Slaves 1825-1835. Council Journal 1831-32. Floyd, John B. Executive Papers, 1831-32. Floyd, John. Executive Letter Box, 1831-32. Virginia Legislative Petitions, 1831-32. Virginia Land Tax Books, 1825-32. Virginia Personal Property Books, 1831-32.

Newman Library, Virginia Tech Bear Family Papers. Deane, Francis B. Jr. Letter, 1857. Preston Family (Alice Preston Moore Collection) Papers. Preston, Robert Taylor Papers.

Virginia Historical Society Brodnax, William Henry Papers Leigh, Benjamin Watkins Papers Virginia Colonization Society Minute Book, 1829-59

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Speeches

The Speech of Henry Berry (of Jefferson) in the House of Delegates of Virginia, on the Abolition of Slavery. Richmond: T.W. White, 1832.

The Speech of William H. Brodnax (Of Dinwiddie) in the House of Delegates of Virginia, on the Policy of the State with respect to Its Colored Population. Richmond: T.W. White, 1832.

The Speech of Philip A. Bolling (of Buckingham). In the House of Delegates of Virginia, on the Policy of the State with respect to Its Colored Population. Richmond: T. W. White, 1832.

The Speech of John Thompson Brown, in the House of Delegates, on the Abolition of Slavery. Richmond: T.W. White, 1832.

The Speech of John A. Chandler (of Norfolk County) in the House of Delegates of Virginia, on the Policy of the State with respect to Her Slave Population. Richmond: T.W. White, 1832.

The Speech of Charles Jas. Faulkner (of Berkeley) in the House of Delegates of Virginia, on the Policy of the State with respect to Her Slave Population. Richmond: T. W. White, 1832.

The Speech of Thomas Marshall, in the House of Delegates of Virginia, on the Abolition of Slavery. Richmond: T.W. White, 1832.

The Speech of James McDowell, Jr. (of Rockbridge) in the House of Delegates of Virginia on the Slave Question. Richmond: T.W. White, 1832.

The Speech of Thomas Jefferson Randolph, in the House of Delegates of Virginia, on the Abolition of Slavery. Richmond: T.W. White, 1832.

Publications

Ambler, Charles H., ed. The Life and Diary of John Floyd: Governor of Virginia, an Apostle of Secession, and Father of the Oregon Country. Richmond: Richmond Press, 1918.

Andrews, E.A. Slavery and the Domestic Slave Trade. Philadelphia, 1836.

Boyd, Julian P., ed. The Papers of Thomas Jefferson. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1952.

Coleman, Mary H., ed. Virginia Silhouettes: Contemporary Letters Concerning Negro Slavery in the State of Virginia. Richmond: Dietz Press, 1934. 84

Dew, Thomas Roderick. A Digest of the Laws, Customs, Manners, and Institutions of the Ancient and Modern Nations. 1852.

______. Lectures on the Restrictive System. Richmond: Samuel Shepard and Company, 1829.

______. Review of the Debate in the Virginia Legislature of 1831 and 1832. Richmond: T. W. White, 1832.

Elliot, E.N. Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments: Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartwright. Augusta: Pritchard, Abbot, & Loomis, 1860.

Gray, Thomas B., ed. Confessions of Nat Turner, in Slavery in the South, edited by Harvey Wish. New York: Noonday Press, 1964.

Harrison, Fairfax, ed., Aris Sons Focisque. The Harrisons of Skimino. Privately Printed, 1910.

Jefferson, Thomas. The Portable Thomas Jefferson, edited by Merril D. Peterson. New York: Penquin Books, 1975.

Locke, John. Two Treatises of Government, edited by Peter Laslett. Reprinted. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1960.

Rossiter, Clinton, ed. The Federalist Papers. New York: New American Library, 1961.

Ruffin, Edmund. The Political Economy of Slavery: or the Institution Considered in Regard to Its Influence on Public Wealth and the General Welfare. Washington: Lemuel Towers, 1853.

Ruffner, Henry. An Address to the People of West Virginia. 1847.

Rutland, Robert A. The Papers of George Mason, 1725-1792. 3 vols; Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1970.

Slaughter, Phillip. The Virginia History of African Colonization. Richmond: MacFarlane and Henderson, 1855.

Taylor, John. Arator Series, 1817. Microprint, Alderman Library.

The Pro-Slavery Argument as Maintained by Chancellor Harper, Governor Hammond, Dr. Simms, and Professor Dew. Charleston: Walker, Richards, & Co., 1852. 85

Tucker, George. Political Economy for the People. Philadelphia: C. Sherman and Son, 1859 (Reprinted; New York: Augustus M. Kelley, 1970).

Tucker, St. George. A Dissertation on Slavery: With a proposal for the gradual Abolition of it in the State of Virginia. Philadelphia, 1796.

Wiltse, Charles M., ed. David Walker’s Appeal in Four Articles. New York: Hill and Wang, 1965.

Wilson, Clyde N. And W. Edwin Hemphill, ed. The Papers of John C. Calhoun, Vol. 10. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1977.

Government Records

Catteral, Helen, ed. Judicial Cases Concerning American Slavery and the Negro. V. 1. Washington: Carnegie Institution, 1926.

Henning, Walter W., ed. Virginia Statutes at Large, 1619-1792. Richmond: George Cochran, 1823.

Leonard, Cynthia Miller, ed. The General Assembly of Virginia, July 30, 1619-January 11, 1978: A Bicentennial Register of Members. Richmond: Virginia State Library, 1978.

U.S. Census Office. The Third Census of the United States, 1810.

______. The Fourth Census of the United States, 1820.

______. The Fifth Census of the United States, 1830.

______. The Sixth Census of the United States, 1840.

Commonwealth of Virginia. Acts and Joint Resolutions of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Virginia, 1815-1829. Richmond: Thomas Ritchie, 1816-29.

______. Acts Passed at the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Virginia, 1830-1836. Richmond: Thomas Ritchie, 1831-36.

______. Journal of the House of Delegates of the Commonwealth of Virginia, 1831-32. Richmond: Thomas Ritchie, 1832.

______. Journal of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Virginia, 1831-32. Richmond: John Warrock, 1832. 86

______. Proceedings and Debates of the Virginia State Convention of 1829-1830. Richmond: Thomas Ritchie, 1830.

Newspapers and Periodicals

Charlottesville Virginia Advocate Lynchburg Virginian Norfolk Herald Richmond Constitutional Whig Richmond Enquirer

SECONDARY SOURCES

BIOGRAPHICAL

Bailor, Keith M. “John Taylor of Caroline: Continuity, Change, and Discontinuity in Virginia’s Sentiments Toward Slavery, 1790-1820.” Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, 75 (July, 1967), 290-304.

Finkelman, Paul. Slavery and the Founders: Race and Liberty in the Age of Jefferson. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1996.

Genovese, Eugene D. Western Civilization through Slaveholding Eyes: The Social and Historical Thought of Thomas Roderick Dew. New Orleans: The Graduate School of Tulane University, 1986.

Mansfield, Stephen S. “Thomas Roderick Dew: Defender of the Southern Faith.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Virginia, 1968.

Miller, John C. The Wolf by the Ears: Thomas Jefferson and Slavery. New York: Free Press, 1977.

Mudge, Eugene Tenbroeck. The Social Philosophy of John Taylor of Caroline: A Study in Jeffersonian Democracy. New York: Columbia University Press, 1939.

Shalhope, Robert E. John Taylor of Caroline: Pastoral Republican. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1980.

Wallenstein, Peter. “Flawed Keepers of the Flame: The Interpreters of George Mason.” Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, 102 (April, 1994), 229-260. 87

COLONIZATION

Beyan, Amos J. The American Colonization Society and the Creation of the Liberian State: A Historical Perspective, 1822-1900. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 1991.

Egerton, Douglas R. “Its Origin is Not a Little Curious: A New Look at the American Colonization Society.” Journal of the Early Republic, 5 (1985), 463-80.

Staudenraus, P. J. The African Colonization Movement, 1816-1865. New York: Columbia University Press, 1962.

EMANCIPATION

Foner, Eric. Nothing But Freedom: Emancipation and its Legacy. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1983.

Litwick, Leon F. North of Slavery: The Negro in the Free States, 1790-1860. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1961.

Zilversmit, Arthur. The First Emancipation: The Abolition of Slavery in the North. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1967.

EMINENT DOMAIN / PROPERTY

Epstein, Richard A. Taking: Private Property and the Power of Eminent Domain. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1985.

Horwitz, Martin J. The Transformation of American Law, 1790-1860. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1977.

Levy, Leonard W., et al, ed. Encyclopedia of theAmerican Constitution. New York: MacMillian Publishing Company, 1986.

McCurdy, Charles W., and Henry N. Scheiber. “Eminent Domain Law and Western Agriculture, 1850-1900.” Agricultural History 49 (1975), 112-130.

Paul, Ellen Frankel. Property Rights and Eminent Domain. New Brunswick: Transaction Books, 1987. 88

Paul, Ellen Frankel and Howard Dickman, ed. Liberty, Property, and the Foundations of the American Constitution. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1989.

Stoebuck, William B. “A General Theory of Eminent Domain.” Washington Law Review 47 (1972), 553-608.

Waldron, Jeremy. The Right to Private Property. Oxford: Claredon Press, 1988.

White, G. Edward. The Marshall Court and Cultural Change, 1815-1835. New York: Macmillan, 1988.

INTELLECTUAL HISTORIES

Davis, David B. The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1966.

______. The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1975.

Davis, Richard Beale. Intellectual Life in Jefferson’s Virginia, 1790-1830. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1964.

Eaton, Clemont. Freedom of Thought in the Old South. Durham: Duke University Press, 1940.

Fredrickson, George M. The Black Image in the White Mind: The Debate on Afro-American Character and Destiny, 1817-1914. New York: Harper and Row, 1971.

______. White Supremacy: A Comparative Study in American and South African History. New York: Oxford University Press, 1981.

Jordan, Winthrop. White Over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1968.

O’Brien, Michael, ed. All Clever Men Who Make Their Way: Critical Discourse in the Old South. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1982.

Wyatt-Brown, Bertram. Southern Honor: Ethics and Behavior in the Old South. New York: Oxford University Press, 1982. 89

PROSLAVERY ARGUMENT

Donald, David. “The Proslavery Argument Reconsidered.” Journal of Southern History, 7 (1971), 3-18.

Faust, Drew Gilpin. The Ideology of Slavery: Proslavery Thought in the Antebellum South 1830- 1860. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1981.

______. A Sacred Circle: The Dilemman of the Intellectual in the Old South, 1840-1860. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1977.

Genovese, Eugene D. The Slaveholders’ Dilemma: Freedom and Progress in Southern Conservative Thought, 1820-1860. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1993.

______. The World the Slaveholders Made: Two Essays in Interpretation. New York: Pantheon Press, 1969.

Jenkins, William Sumner. Proslavery Thought in the Old South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1935.

McKitrick, Eric L., ed. Slavery Defended! The Views of the Old South. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1963.

McPherson, James M. “Slavery and Race.” Perspectives in American History 3 (1969), 460-73.

Schmidt, Fredrika Teute and Babara Ripel Wilhelm. “Early Proslavery Petitions in Virginia.” William and Mary Quarterly, 30, Third Series (1973), 133-46.

Sellers, Charles G., Jr. “The Travail of Slavery,” in The Southerner as American. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1960.

Spengler, J.J. “Malthusianism and the Debate on Slavery.” South Atlantic Quarterly, XXXIV (April, 1935), 170-89.

Tise, Larry E. Proslavery: A History of the Defense of Slavery in America, 1701-1840. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1987.

Wyatt-Brown, Bertram. “Modernizing Southern Slavery: The Proslavery Argument Reinterpreted.” Region, Race, and Reconstruction: Essays in Honor of C. Vann Woodward, ed., by J. Morgan Kousser and James M. McPherson. New York: Oxford University Press, 1982, 27-49. 90

REPUBLICAN IDEOLOGY AND JOHN LOCKE

Bailyn, Bernard. The Origins of American Politics. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1968.

Ford, Lacy K. Origins of Southern Radicalism: The South Carolina Upcountry, 1800-1860. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.

Freehling, William W. “The Founding Fathers, Conditional Antislavery, and the Nonradicalism of the American Revolution,” in The Reintegration of American History: Slavery and the Civil War. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.

______. “The Divided South, Democracy’s Limitations, and the Causes of the Peculiarly North American Civil War,”in The Reintegration of American History: Slavery and the Civil War. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.

Green, Fletcher M. Constitutional Development in the South Atlantic States, 1776-1860: A Study in the Evolution of Democracy. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1930.

Greenberg, Kenneth S. “Revolutionary Ideology and the Proslavery Argument: The Abolition of Slavery in Antebellum South Carolina.” Journal of Southern History, 42 (1976), 365-84.

Huyler, Jerome. Locke in America: The Moral Philosophy of the Founding Era. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1995.

Kaufman, Allen. Capitalism, Slavery, and Republican Values: American Political Economists, 1819-1848. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1982.

Morgan, Edmund S. American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia. New York: W.W. Norton, 1975.

Oakes, James. “From Republicanism to Liberalism: Ideological Change and the Crisis of the Old South.” American Quarterly 37 (1985), 551-71.

White, Morton, ed. Documents in the History of American Philosophy: From Jonathan Edwards to John Dewey. New York: Oxford University Press, 1972.

______. The Philosophy of the American Revolution. New York: Oxford University Press, 1978.

Wood, Gordon S. The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1969. 91

SLAVERY

Ballagh, J. C. A History of Slavery in Virginia. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1902.

Dew, Charles B. Bond of Iron: master and Slave at Buffalo Forge. New York: W.W. Norton, 1994.

Elkins, Stanley M. Slavery: A Problem in American Institutional and Intellectual Life. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, Second Edition, 1968.

Fields, Barbara J. Slavery and Freedom on the Middle Ground: Maryland during the Nineteenth Century. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985.

Genovese, Eugene D. Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made. New York: Pantheon Press, 1972.

______. The Political Economy of Slavery. New York: Pantheon Press, 1965.

Lewis, Ronald L. Coal, Iron, and Slaves: Industrial Slavery in Maryland and Virginia, 1715- 1865. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1979.

McColley, Robert. Slavery in Jeffersonian Virginia. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, Second edition, 1964.

Morgan, Lynda J. Emancipation in Virginia’s Tobacco Belt, 1850-1870. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1992.

Morgan, Philip D. “Slave Life in Piedmont Virginia, 1720-1800,” in Colonial Chesapeake Society, edited by Lois Green Carr, Philip D. Morgan, and Jean B. Russo. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1988.

Newton, James E. and Ronald Lewis, ed. The Other Slaves: Mechanics, Artisans, and Craftsmen. Boston: G.K. Hall and Co., 1978.

Oakes, James. The Ruling Race: A History of American Slaveholders. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982.

______. Slavery and Freedom: An Interpretation of the Old South. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990.

Stampp, Kenneth M. The Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Antebellum South. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1956. 92

Starobin, Robert S. Industrial Slavery in the Old South. New York: Oxford University Press, 1970.

Tannenbaum, Frank. Slave and Citizen. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946.

Wade, Richard C. Slavery in the Cities: The South 1820-1860. New York: Oxford University Press, 1964.

TOBACCO ECONOMY

Craven, Avery. Soil Exhaustion as a Factor in the Agricultural History of Virginia and Maryland, 1606-1860. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.

Phillips, Ulrich B. Life and Labor in the Old South. Boston, 1929.

Price, Jacob. France and the Chesapeake: A History of the Tobacco Monopoly, 1694-1791, and of its Relationship to the British and American Tobacco Trades, 2 vol. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1973.

Robert, Joseph Clarke. The Tobacco Kingdom: Plantation, Market, and Factory in Virginia and North Carolina, 1800-1860. Durham: Duke University Press, 1938.

Siegel, Frederick F. The Roots of Southern Distinctiveness. Tobacco and Society in Danville, Virginia, 1780-1865. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1987.

VIRGINIA HISTORY

Ambler, Charles H. Sectionalism in Virginia from 1776 to 1861. Reprint. New York: Russell and Russell, 1964.

Bruce, Dickson D. The Rhetoric of Conservatism: The Virginia Convention of 1829-30 and the Conservative Tradition in the South. San Marino, CAL: The Huntington Library, 1982.

Dabney, Virginius. Virginia: The New Dominion. Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Company, 1971.

Egerton, Douglas R. Gabriel’s Rebellion: The Virginia Slave Conspiracies of 1800 and 1802. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1993.

Foner, Eric, ed. Nat Turner. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1971. 93

Freehling, Alison Goodyear. A Drift Toward Dissolution: The Virginia Slavery Debate of 1831- 1832. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1985.

Freehling, William W. “The Editorial Revolution, Virginia, and the Coming of the Civil War: A Review Essay.” Civil War History, (1970), 64-72.

Hite, James C., and Eileen J. Hall. “The Reactionary Evolution of Economic Thought in Antebellum Virginia.” Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, LXXX (1972), 476- 88.

Oates, Stephen B. The Fires of Jubilee: Nat Turner’s Fierce Rebellion. New York: Harper & Row, 1975.

Robert, Joseph Clarke. The Road from Monticello: A Study of the Virginia Slavery Debate of 1832. Durham: Duke University Press, 1941.

Siegel, Frederick F. “The Paternalist Thesis: Virginia as a Test Case.” Civil War History, XXV (1979), 247-261.

Stampp, Kenneth M. “An Analysis of T. R. Dew’s Review of the Debate in the Virginia Legislature.” Journal of Negro History, XXVII (1942), 380-87.

Sutton, Robert P. Revolution to Secession: Constitution Making in the Old Dominion. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1989.

Tarter, Brent. “The New Virginia Bookself.” Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, 104 (Winter, 1996), 4-101.

Whitfield, Theodore M. Slavery Agitation in Virginia, 1829-1832. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1930.

GENERAL

Burton, Orville Vernon and Robert C. McMath, ed. Class, Conflict, and Consensus: Antebellum Southern Community Studies. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1982.

Freehling, William W. Prelude to Civil War: The Nullification Controversy in South Carolina, 1816-1836. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1966.

______. The Road to Disunion: Secessionists at Bay, 1776-1854. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. 94

Laerutus, Diogenes. Lives of the Great Philosophers, edited by A. Robert Caponigri. Chicago: Henry Regnery Co., 1969.

McPherson, James M. Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.

Peterson, Merrill D. Olive Branch and the Sword - - The Compromise of 1833. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1982.

Scanlon, James Edward. Randolph-Macon College: a Southern History, 1825-1967. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1983. CHRISTOPHER M. CURTIS

Graduate Student 111 Maplewood Drive Department of History Forest, Virginia 24551 Virginia Tech (804)525-0836 e-mail: [email protected]

Education

B.A. University of South Carolina (1986) M.A. Virginia Tech (1997)

Graduate Fellowship Emory University (Commences Fall 1997)

Thesis

“Can These be the Sons of Their Fathers?”: The Defense of Slavery in Virginia, 1831-32. (Advisor: Crandall Shifflett)

Teaching Experience

Substitute Lecturer: America’s Civil War (Fall 96; Spring 97) Teaching Assistant: The U.S. South (Spring 97) History of American Cities (Fall 96) Survey of American History, 1607-1877 (Fall 96) World War II (Spring 96) High School: A.P. United States and Virginia History (9/92-6/95) United States and Virginia History United States and Virginia Government World History World Geography

Professional Affiliations Phi Kappa Phi; American Historical Association; Society for Historians of the Early American Republic; Southern Historical Association; Virginia Historical Society; Graduate Student Assembly.