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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... foreign markets. Moreover, northern politicians in Congress needed southern support for their own favorite measures, including the assumption of state debts. Northern antislavery societies could not surmount the low priority accorded to ...
... foreign markets. Moreover, northern politicians in Congress needed southern support for their own favorite measures, including the assumption of state debts. Northern antislavery societies could not surmount the low priority accorded to ...
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... foreign slaves until 1798.23 Given its social importance, slavery was bound to have ideological consequences. Fear of enslavement suffused the Americans' revolu- tionary rhetoric. It was the most potent metaphor of injustice in their ...
... foreign slaves until 1798.23 Given its social importance, slavery was bound to have ideological consequences. Fear of enslavement suffused the Americans' revolu- tionary rhetoric. It was the most potent metaphor of injustice in their ...
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... foreign slave importation for reasons of humanitar- ianism and prudence. By 1807, when Congress finally passed a law banning further slave importation after 1 January 1808, the trade was legal only in South Carolina—and even there it ...
... foreign slave importation for reasons of humanitar- ianism and prudence. By 1807, when Congress finally passed a law banning further slave importation after 1 January 1808, the trade was legal only in South Carolina—and even there it ...
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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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