A DEFENCE OF NEGRO HISTORY, AS IT EXISTS IN THE UNITED STATES

by Matthew Estes

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Montgomery, AL : Press of the Alabama Journal, 1846. First edition. 12mo. 260 pp. A high-spot if such a thing may be said to exist of antebellum pro-slavery literature. Historian John Ashworth finds in Estes “the fullest expression” of the menial theme in pro-slavery literature: “ Estes was prepared to ‘state it as a fact, which is confirmed by the whole history of mankind – that there is a certain kind of hard drudgery which

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