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Anti-Jeffersonianism in the Antebellum South

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19858
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This article looks at the shift of social and moral imperatives in the South in the early 18th century that changed the attitudes towards slavery from condemnation to justification and acceptance. The political impact of this change is seen in the geographic shift of the popularity of Jeffersonian politics, which were generally unfavorable to slavery, from the South to the anti-slavery North. The article further contends that Southern Jeffersonianism was replaced with a new set of pro-slavery ideals and values first promoted by John C. Calhoun and that came to be known as Calhounism.
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