Slave Country: American Expansion and the Origins of the Deep SouthHarvard University Press, 30 jun 2009 - 296 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. Rothman maps the combination of transatlantic capitalism and American nationalism that provoked a massive forced migration of slaves into Louisiana, Alabama, and Mississippi. He tells the fascinating story of collaboration and conflict among the diverse European, African, and indigenous peoples who inhabited the Deep South during the Jeffersonian era, and who turned the region into the most dynamic slave system of the Atlantic world. Paying close attention to dramatic episodes of resistance, rebellion, and war, Rothman exposes the terrible violence that haunted the Jeffersonian vision of republican expansion across the American continent. Slave Country combines political, economic, military, and social history in an elegant narrative that illuminates the perilous relation between freedom and slavery in the early United States. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in an honest look at America's troubled past. |
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... Alabama, and Missouri. As slavery expanded in the new United States, slaves forcibly transported to the new plantation areas were put to work cultivating cotton and sugar, which had not been important crops in North America during the ...
... Alabama, and Missouri. As slavery expanded in the new United States, slaves forcibly transported to the new plantation areas were put to work cultivating cotton and sugar, which had not been important crops in North America during the ...
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... Alabama—into the Union.29 Sovereignty over the North American interior was ambiguous and heterogeneous. The peace settlement between Great Britain and the United States in 1783 had left the southern and western boundaries of the United ...
... Alabama—into the Union.29 Sovereignty over the North American interior was ambiguous and heterogeneous. The peace settlement between Great Britain and the United States in 1783 had left the southern and western boundaries of the United ...
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... Alabama. It was not empty. About 50,000 white and black people already lived there, as well as 40,000 American Indians of the Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Creek nations. The rapidly increasing white and black population was concentrated ...
... Alabama. It was not empty. About 50,000 white and black people already lived there, as well as 40,000 American Indians of the Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Creek nations. The rapidly increasing white and black population was concentrated ...
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2 Civilizing the Cotton Frontier | 37 |
3 Commerce and Slavery in Lower Louisiana | 73 |
4 The Wartime Challenge | 119 |
5 Fulfilling the Slave Country | 165 |
Epilogue | 217 |
Abbreviations | 227 |
Notes | 229 |
Acknowledgments | 281 |
Index | 283 |
Otras ediciones - Ver todo
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 - 2005 |
Slave Country: American Expansion and the Origins of the Deep South Adam Rothman Vista de fragmentos - 2005 |
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