Slave CountryHarvard University Press, 25 abr 2005 - 312 páginas Slave Country tells the tragic story of the expansion of slavery in the new United States. In the wake of the American Revolution, slavery gradually disappeared from the northern states and the importation of captive Africans was prohibited. Yet, at the same time, the country's slave population grew, new plantation crops appeared, and several new slave states joined the Union. Adam Rothman explores how slavery flourished in a new nation dedicated to the principle of equality among free men, and reveals the enormous consequences of U.S. expansion into the region that became the Deep South. |
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... percent ) of the slave population was born in Louisiana . The African population was heterogeneous , with 13 percent of the slaves coming from the Bight of Benin , 12 percent from Senegambia , 7 percent from Central Africa , 5 percent ...
... percent of the slave population . West - Central Africans became the second most nu- merous group , accounting for 16 percent of the slave population , with British North American slaves increased to 10 percent . Slaves from the Bight ...
... percent of the slaves embarked from Norfolk , the leading port of embarkation . Just over 25 percent of the slaves sailed from Baltimore , almost 14 percent from Richmond , and 10 percent from Petersburg and Alexandria . Another 8 percent ...
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Slave Country: American Expansion and the Origins of the Deep South Adam Rothman Vista previa restringida - 2007 |
Slave Country: American Expansion and the Origins of the Deep South Adam ROTHMAN Vista previa restringida - 2009 |
Slave Country: American Expansion and the Origins of the Deep South Adam Rothman Vista previa restringida - 2005 |
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Coastal Encounters: The Transformation of the Gulf South in the Eighteenth ... Richmond F. Brown Vista previa restringida - 2007 |
Encyclopedia of Slave Resistance and Rebellion [Two Volumes] ABC-CLIO, LLC,Harcourt Education No hay ninguna vista previa disponible - 2006 |