A New Look at Personal Slavery Established
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3457403 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lester B Scherer (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1973 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 645 |
| Publication date | 1973-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The William and Mary Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0043-5597 • E-ISSN: 1933-7698 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1918600 |
| OpenAlex | W2324920194 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
HILADELPHIA in I773 was the setting for a literary debate about slavery, which began with the antislavery pamphlet, Address Upon Slave-Keeping, by the noted physician Benjamin Rush, written in support of a petition the Pennsylvania Assembly to procure an Increase of the Duty upon Negro Slaves imported into the Province. Richard Nisbet, a West Indian residing in Philadelphia, took the pamphlet be a gratuitous slur on the reputation of the Caribbean planters and responded with Slavery Not Forbidden by Scripture. In September Rush brought out a second edition of his Address Upon Slave-Keeping, which was appended a rebuttal of Nisbet that was longer than either Nisbet's piece or the original Address Upon Slave-Keeping. On November i5, a short piece, anonymous and apparently satirical, appeared in the Pennsylvania Packet, presenting a fictitious biblical passage as proof that Africans were divinely destined for slavery.' The debate concluded with the publication of the pamphlet, Personal Slavery Established, whose author has never been identified. Dated November 26, it was avowedly an attack on Rush's Address Upon SlaveKeeping. Historians without exception have taken this avowal at face value, accepting the work as a virulently antiblack defense of slavery.2
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.14 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2018 (7) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |