El esclavismo antiguo en los Estados Unidos del periodo "antebellum" (1780-1860)

Clelia Martínez Maza

doi:10.5209/rev_GERI.2016.v34.53748

Ancient Slavery in the "Antebellum" United States (1780-1860)

Clelia Martínez Maza Universidad de Málaga

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5209/rev_GERI.2016.v34.53748

Keywords: Slavery, Aristotle, Agrarian Republicanism, Southern States, Classical Models

Abstract

In the early years of America as a nation, its economic structure had one of its essential bases in slave labour and trade. Besides, if the recovery of the Ancient world was essential in the political design of the new republic, slavery advocates also went to the classical past seeking ideological support. Slavery in Greece and Rome was thus recovered as a precedent to justify the practice. It was intended to demonstrate, by recalling the classics, the need for slave labour, the continuity of the system, and the advantages already proven in the Greco-Roman world, not only in the economic situation, but also in the political and even the artistic field.

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Martínez Maza C. (2016). Ancient Slavery in the "Antebellum" United States (1780-1860). Gerión. Revista de Historia Antigua, 34, 383-389. https://doi.org/10.5209/rev_GERI.2016.v34.53748

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