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• catalog abstract ""This volume, a collection of letters written by an abolitionist businessman who lived in East Tennessee prior to the Civil War, provides one of the clearest firsthand views yet published of a region whose political, social, and economic distinctions have intrigued historians for more than a century." "Between 1841 and 1846, Birdseye expressed his views and observations in letters to Gerrit Smith, a prominent New York reformer who arranged to have many of them published in antislavery newspapers such as the Emancipator and Friend of Man." "Those letters, reproduced in this book, drew on Birdseye's extensive conversations with slaveholders, nonslaveholders, and the slaves themselves. He found that East Tennesseans, on the whole, were antislavery in sentiment, susceptible to rational abolitionist appeal, and generally far more lenient toward individual slaves than were other southerners. Opposed to slavery on economic as well as moral grounds, Birdseye sought to establish a free labor colony in East Tennessee in the early 1840s and actively supported the region's abortive effort in 1842 to separate itself from the rest of the state."--[book jacket].".
• catalog contributor b10268961.
• catalog contributor b10268962.
• catalog coverage "Tennessee, East History Autonomy and independence movements Sources.".
• catalog coverage "Tennessee, East History Autonomy and independence movements.".
• catalog created "c1997.".
• catalog date "1997".
• catalog date "c1997.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c1997.".
• catalog description ""This volume, a collection of letters written by an abolitionist businessman who lived in East Tennessee prior to the Civil War, provides one of the clearest firsthand views yet published of a region whose political, social, and economic distinctions have intrigued historians for more than a century." "Between 1841 and 1846, Birdseye expressed his views and observations in letters to Gerrit Smith, a prominent New York reformer who arranged to have many of them published in antislavery newspapers such as the Emancipator and Friend of Man." "Those letters, reproduced in this book, drew on Birdseye's extensive conversations with slaveholders, nonslaveholders, and the slaves themselves. He found that East Tennesseans, on the whole, were antislavery in sentiment, susceptible to rational abolitionist appeal, and generally far more lenient toward individual slaves than were other southerners. Opposed to slavery on economic as well as moral grounds, Birdseye sought to establish a free labor colony in East Tennessee in the early 1840s and actively supported the region's abortive effort in 1842 to separate itself from the rest of the state."--[book jacket].".
• catalog description "Ezekiel Birdseye's life and times in East Tennessee, 1838-1861. Political abolitionism and separatism ; Ezekiel Birdseye ; Entrepreneurship, capitalism, economic progress, and abolitionism ; the legal status and actual treatment of slaves -- Ezekiel Birdseye's letters.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-293) and index.".
• catalog extent "xii, 306 p. ;".
• catalog identifier "0870499645 (alk. paper)".
• catalog issued "1997".
• catalog issued "c1997.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press,".
• catalog spatial "Tennessee, East History Autonomy and independence movements Sources.".
• catalog spatial "Tennessee, East History Autonomy and independence movements.".
• catalog spatial "Tennessee, East".
• catalog subject "306.3/62/09768 20".
• catalog subject "Birdseye, Ezekiel, 1796-1861 Correspondence.".
• catalog subject "Capitalism Tennessee, East History 19th century Sources.".
• catalog subject "E445.T3 B57 1997".
• catalog subject "Slavery Tennessee, East History 19th century Sources.".
• catalog tableOfContents "Ezekiel Birdseye's life and times in East Tennessee, 1838-1861. Political abolitionism and separatism ; Ezekiel Birdseye ; Entrepreneurship, capitalism, economic progress, and abolitionism ; the legal status and actual treatment of slaves -- Ezekiel Birdseye's letters.".
• catalog title "An abolitionist in the Appalachian South : Ezekiel Birdseye on slavery, capitalism, and separate statehood in East Tennessee, 1841-1846 / [selected and introduced by] Durwood Dunn.".
• catalog type "History. fast".
• catalog type "Records and correspondence. fast".
• catalog type "Sources. fast".
• catalog type "text".