Erik S. Root

Erik S. Root's book, Sons of the Father: The Virginia Slavery Debates of 1831-1832, explores the Virginia Slavery Debate of 1831-1832, conducted in the House of Delegates. This is possibly the greatest debate to have occurred in any southern state before the Civil War. The speeches in this book mehr anzeigen provide, for the first time ever, an unedited version of that debate wherein many of the sons of America's founders deliberated over the necessity of emancipating the slaves in Old Dominion. Erik S. Root is the chair of economic philosophy at West Liberty University. He is also author of All Honor to Jefferson? weniger anzeigen