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A major contribution to our understanding of slavery in the early republic, Deliver Us from Evil illuminates the white South's twisted and tortured efforts to justify slavery, focusing on the period from the drafting of the federal constitution in 1787 through the age of Jackson.

Drawing heavily on primary sources, including newspapers, government documents, legislative records, pamphlets, and speeches, Lacy K. Ford recaptures the varied and sometimes contradictory ideas and attitudes held by groups of white southerners as they tried to square slavery with their democratic ideals. He excels at conveying the political, intellectual, economic, and social thought of leading white southerners, vividly recreating the mental world of the varied actors and capturing the vigorous debates over slavery. He also shows that there was not one antebellum South but many, and not one southern white mindset but several, with the debates over slavery in the upper South quite different in substance from those in the deep South. In the upper South, where tobacco had fallen into comparative decline by 1800, debate often centered on how the area might reduce its dependence on slave labor and "whiten" itself, whether through gradual emancipation and colonization or the sale of slaves to the cotton South. During the same years, the lower South swirled into the vortex of the "cotton revolution," and that area's whites lost all interest in emancipation, no matter how gradual or fully compensated.

An ambitious, thought-provoking, and highly insightful book, Deliver Us from Evil makes an important contribution to the history of slavery in the United States, shedding needed light on the white South's early struggle to reconcile slavery with its Revolutionary heritage.
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Starred Review. That southern white views on the slavery question varied across space and changed over time may not appear to be news, yet through depth, detail and focus, Ford's comprehensive study forges a fresh path. Crosscutting along geographical lines, separating the upper and lower South, Ford (Origins of Southern Radicalism) follows a chronological trail between 1787 and 1840 as he focuses on the evolution of white attitudes and slaveholder ideology over time. While the historical detail is engrossing, Ford's eye remains on the consequences of events upon the emerging ideology. As upper South advocates of whitening the region instigated a demographic reconfiguration of slavery, for example, selling their slaves to the lower South, the lower South's ideological restructuring replaced coercion with paternalism. Ford's monumental book delineates a twisted and tortured intellectual history; signs of his mastery of previous scholarship and his immersion in fresh primary sources abound. Formidable detail threatens to overwhelm, but Ford's lucid prose and summary introductions illuminate the way. Lay readers will appreciate his guidance, and academic readers will find his revelations groundbreaking. (Sept.)
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"Ford's study is a quick and enjoyable read. Students especially will welcome the way he sets up his argument in each section and then summarizes neatly at the end of each chapter...This should remain the definitive work for years to come on why white Southerners ultimately declined to deliver themselves from the evils of slavery."--Georgia Historical Quarterly

"Ford painstakingly unravels the divergent perspectives on slavery, making 'Deliver Us From Evil' required reading for anyone interested in the development of Southern society...In dismissing the stale notions that slaveholder paternalism developed from the ancient habit of noblesse oblige or from the peculiar conditions of Southern slavery, Ford makes his most important contribution to our understanding of the development of Southern society."--Ira Berlin, New York Times Book Review

"[T]hrough depth, detail and focus, Ford's comprehensive study forges a fresh path...[T]he historical detail is engrossing...Ford's monumental book delineates a 'twisted and tortured' intellectual history; signs of his mastery of previous scholarship and his immersion in fresh primary sources abound...Ford's lucid prose and summary introductions illuminate the way. Lay readers will appreciate his guidance, and academic readers will find his revelations groundbreaking."--Publishers Weekly" (starred review)

"Ford's book...does provide an intricate, textured argument about the intellectual, social, and political interests shaping 'the slavery question'...Essential for all students of this subject."--Library Journal

"Rarely has anyone heard this case made with the force and detail that Lacy K. Ford, chairman of the University of South Carolina's history department, has pulled together in his important new work...Those seeking the slaves' perspective won't find much here, as the author readily notes up front, but there's arguably no single better book for anyone wishing to explore the mind-set that kept them in chains."--Charleston Post & Courier

"[A] long-awaited, heavily documented, and precisely argued study."--H-Law

"Ford's vitally important book reminds us of the complicated calculus employed by
white southerners to answer various 'slavery questions' over southern time and space."--North Carolina Historical Review

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Oxford University Press; 1st edition (August 15, 2009)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 688 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 019511809X
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0195118094
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.4 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.3 x 1.7 x 9.3 inches
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  • Lionel S. Taylor
    5.0 out of 5 stars A Well Written and Carefully Reserched Book
    Reviewed in the United States on December 28, 2011
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    This is and excellent well written book on the efforts of the antebellum American South to deal with the question of slavery. What the author demonstrates with plenty of evidence is that the question of the "peculiar institution" was delt with in diffrent ways by diffrent regions. Unlike what is often believed,the South was not a monolithic entity in lock step agreement with what to do about slavery. There were divisions along class and regional lines and even on how best to prevent revolts and rebellions. The authors examination of the paternalism movement is especially intresting and well reserched. The one thing that seemed to unify the Slave states was outside criticism and Ford does an excellent job of showing how the diffrent regions reacted to this percieved outside threat. I highly recommend this book to anyone intrested in the debated going on about the problem of slavery in the South in the period leading up to its bloody resolution.
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  • William Alexander
    5.0 out of 5 stars Masterful
    Reviewed in the United States on November 21, 2010
    I must first disclose that I was once, briefly, a student of Professor Ford's, but I have no feelings about him personally one way or the other. I offer this information to, hopefully, reassure the prospective purchaser that I have no personal investments in the author or his book.

    Ford, in "Deliver Us From Evil," has finally delivered what has been sorely missing from the American historical canon, namely a comprehensive and balanced look at how the white South - hardly a monolithic construct of itself - negotated its relationship with the institution that both defined it and stalked its conscience. It is a picture of a schizophrenic mentality as much defined by regional attitudes as power-politics where the upper south pursued policies of ethnic homogenization through its devilish slave trading with the "deep" south, the "deep" south in turn justifying its embrace of slavery though paternalistic, "dark romantic" narratives, both bolstered by what can only be a willful blindness towards the human suffering both masked. Either way, it is a distressing picture of disparate groups of white southerners glamouring their own discomforts over enslaving millions of people in myth-cultures of their own making, psychic "Balms of Gilead" which used disparate and often disconnected narratives of religion, economics, and "family" to - essentially - the same end, that "end" being maintenance of "the peculiar institution" as more than an economic construct, but a social construct as well, a kind of "glue" to visions of southern regionalism and - ultimately - nationhood. This well-supported theory goes far in explaining why the south, later in its history, saw slavery as such a central institution to southern "identity," something that went far beyond the mere agrarian dollars-and-cents rationale which has been, I think, badly overstated by more modern historians. What Ford describes is something far more powerful and insidious than the cold calculus of the slave block, cotton field, and charter house - how institutional suffering can shape cultural coherence where there would otherwise be little or none.

    I have said it a million times - cultural history is nearly impossible to do. But Ford has succeeded without resort to the murk of theory to varnish or gloss any "holes" in the work. The massive research, conservative use of both primary and secondary sources, and easy to understand style which presents his case without bias mark this book as the work of a master historian performing with great virtuosity.

    Recommended without reservation, a must have for students of the ante-Bellum period.
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  • Nextcast
    4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent!
    Reviewed in the United States on May 21, 2011
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    Excellent overview of a most difficult time in our history. Not information we particularly want to remember, but something every American should know.
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  • Ronald
    5.0 out of 5 stars A work of great scholarship
    Reviewed in the United States on September 11, 2011
    The author says he worked long and hard on this book, and I can certainly believe him. The reading is a little hard going at times, but it's worth staying with it till the end. The reader feels a sense of having gained some important insights from the author as he reads through the various chapters. The Southern struggle with the institution of slavery is clearly depicted and explained throughout the work. The South found it necessary to distort its moral, religious and political views in order to justify an evil institution that most Southerners believed could not be safely removed from their society and culture. In the end the South slipped into a form of societal insanity in order to fend off attacks from Northern Abolitionists. Paternalism seemed to supply the South with a moral and religious defense of slavery, without forcing slaveowners to face the necessity of ending an obvious evil. Their answer was to turn the evil of slavery into a positive good. The racism that was such a necessary component of Southern slavery trapped the slaveowner into the belief that slaves could never be freed to become equal citizens in Southern society. Racism is a form of insanity which forces the racist to deny reality, and therefore create a deeply irrational world view that ultimately forces the racist into more and more erratic behavior in an attemptto justify a flawed belief system. I believe racism drove the South to commit the ultimately suicidal act of secession from the Union. Through that deeply mistaken act the South solved the problem of slavery for good.
    This book is an important work, not only in providing a deeper understanding of Southern society, but in revealing how irrational a society can become in maintaining what it believes are moral, political and religious evils which are, nevertheless, vital to the survival of that society.
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  • Cabrini
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    Reviewed in the United States on March 2, 2011
    I heard the author of this book interviewed on Walter Edgar's Journal on etv radio. It peeked my interest. This book is fascinating -- informative and readable. What was particularly enlightening to me was the evolution of various religions and religious leaders on slavery and the attraction slaves had to Christianity. Speaking for myself, I am once again impressed with the scholarship on this topic. As a family historian, this book is enormously helpful in getting into the minds and hearts of slaves and slaveholders. This book is also interesting in considering current polarizing issues. btw: I obtained the ebook version of this book and appreciate its availability in this format.
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