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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... Virginia, written in the early 1780s, Jefferson described the sensation of gazing at the majestic confluence of the Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers in western Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains: “The first glance of this scene hurries our ...
... Virginia, written in the early 1780s, Jefferson described the sensation of gazing at the majestic confluence of the Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers in western Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains: “The first glance of this scene hurries our ...
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... Virginia that Jefferson identified , only the problem of slavery compelled him to contemplate the kind of cataclysmic forces that had created the Potomac Gap . But just as Jefferson's gaze moved from the valley to the horizon ...
... Virginia that Jefferson identified , only the problem of slavery compelled him to contemplate the kind of cataclysmic forces that had created the Potomac Gap . But just as Jefferson's gaze moved from the valley to the horizon ...
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... Virginia , North Carolina , South Carolina , Georgia , and the territory that would become Kentucky . Jefferson's Virginia , the most populous state in the Union , also con- tained the most slaves nearly 300,000 . One - third of the ...
... Virginia , North Carolina , South Carolina , Georgia , and the territory that would become Kentucky . Jefferson's Virginia , the most populous state in the Union , also con- tained the most slaves nearly 300,000 . One - third of the ...
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... Virginia. In the first federal Congress, twenty-nine of sixty-five representatives (45 percent) and ten of twenty-six senators (38 percent) were from Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. Of these, fourteen ...
... Virginia. In the first federal Congress, twenty-nine of sixty-five representatives (45 percent) and ten of twenty-six senators (38 percent) were from Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. Of these, fourteen ...
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... Virginia debates over the ratification of the proposed Constitution. He argued that the Constitution improved the odds for an eventual prohibition on the importation of slaves while af- fording greater protection for slaveowners ...
... Virginia debates over the ratification of the proposed Constitution. He argued that the Constitution improved the odds for an eventual prohibition on the importation of slaves while af- fording greater protection for slaveowners ...
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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