TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tallant,Harold D.
TI  - Evil Necessity: Slavery and Political Culture in Antebellum Kentucky
SN  - 9780813149561
AV  - E445 .E955 2003
PY  - 2003///
CY  - Lexington
PB  - The University Press of Kentucky
KW  - Slavery
KW  - Kentucky
KW  - Political culture
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1 The Necessary Evil; 2 The Colonizationist Imperative; 3 The Dilemma of Conservative Reform; 4 The Limits of Political Action; 5 The Crisis at the Door; 6 The Crossroads; 7 The Quest for Righteousness; 8 The Relevance and Irrelevance of John G. Fee; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; 2; b
N2  - In Kentucky, the slavery debate raged for thirty years before the Civil War began. While whites in the lower South argued that slavery was good for master and slave, many white Kentuckians maintained that because of racial prejudice, public safety, and property rights, slavery was necessary but undeniably evil. Harold D. Tallant shows how this view bespoke a real ambivalence about the desirability of continuing slavery in Kentucky and permitted an active abolitionist movement in the state to exist alongside contented slaveholders. Though many Kentuckians were increasingly willing to defend sla
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