Proslavery Literature
Up one levelCollection of historical defenses and apologetic literature of slavery in the United States, including anti-black literature.
- African Slavery in America
- Representative secular defense of the institution of slavery by Charles Jared Ingersoll, a well-known Philadelphia civic figure, Congressional representative, and author, published in 1856. Digitized by the Antislavery Literature Project.
- The Cabin and the Parlor; or, Slaves and Masters
- Proslavery novel contrasting life in Southern plantation society and Northern cities; by Charles Jacobs Peterson, under the pseudonym of J. Thornton Randolph (Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson, 1852). Digitized by the Antislavery Literature Project.
- Confederate Broadside Poetry Collection
- An online collection containing Civil War-era pro-Confederate and pro-slavery poetry. Digitized by Wake Forest University.
- Emancipation—Black and White
- An 1865 essay by British natural scientist Thomas Henry Huxley on the emancipation of black slaves and white women. Digitized by the Antislavery Literature Project.
- Eneas Africanus
- A once-popular 1919 pro-slavery story by Harry Stillwell Edwards. Digitized by the Antislavery Literature Project.
- English Serfdom and American Slavery
- A proslavery novel set in England that compares British society unfavorably to US slave society, by Lucien Chase (Philadelphia: H. Long & Bro., 1854). Digitized by the Antislavery Literature Project.
- The Hireling and the Slave
- An epic proslavery poem published in 1856 by William Grayson (Charleston, SC: McCarter & Co.). Digitized by the Antislavery Literature Project.
- The New Pantheon, or the Age of Black
- A proslavery long poem by an anonymous author, published in New York City in 1860. Digitized by the Antislavery Literature Project.
- The North and the South, or, Slavery and Its Contrasts
- Proslavery novel by Caroline Rush, published in response to Harriet Beecher Stowe (Philadelphia: Crissy and Markley, 1852). Digitized by the Antislavery Literature Project.
- The Planter's Northern Bride
- Novel of plantation life from a proslavery perspective, by Caroline Lee Hentz (Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson and Brothers, 1854). Digitized by Documenting the American South, University of North Carolina.
- A Sermon Delivered Before the Vermont Colonization Society
- Tract containing a sermon by John Hough, an advocate for deportation and colonization of emancipated slaves in Africa (Montpellier, Vermont: Vermont Colonization Society, 1826). Digitized by the Antislavery Literature Project.
- Slavery Ordained by God
- Apologetic defense of slavery as a divinely-ordained system, by Rev. Fred A. Ross, a Presbyterian minister from Cleveland, in 1857. Digitized by the Gutenberg Project.
- The Yankee Slave-Dealer; or, An Abolitionist Down South
- Pseudonymous proslavery novel by 'Texan', concerning the converted opinion of a visiting northern abolitionist (Nashville: author, 1860). Digitized by the Wright American Fiction Project at Indiana University.
