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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... John Drayton, declared in 1800 that his state's cotton production had become a “matter of National Joy.”8 To their owners, enslaved people were valuable property, worth on average $200 each. One early nineteenth-century statistician ...
... John Drayton, declared in 1800 that his state's cotton production had become a “matter of National Joy.”8 To their owners, enslaved people were valuable property, worth on average $200 each. One early nineteenth-century statistician ...
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... John May discovered the difficulty and complexity of keeping slaves in the wilderness as he surveyed lands at the falls of the Ohio in 1780. Unable to hire labor, May brought one of his slaves with him into the woods. May wrote that the ...
... John May discovered the difficulty and complexity of keeping slaves in the wilderness as he surveyed lands at the falls of the Ohio in 1780. Unable to hire labor, May brought one of his slaves with him into the woods. May wrote that the ...
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... John Jay.49 It was Jay, a New Yorker, who most provoked the western settlements when he proposed in 1786 to give up navigation rights on the Mississippi for twenty-five to thirty years in exchange for a favorable commercial treaty with ...
... John Jay.49 It was Jay, a New Yorker, who most provoked the western settlements when he proposed in 1786 to give up navigation rights on the Mississippi for twenty-five to thirty years in exchange for a favorable commercial treaty with ...
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Índice
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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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