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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... later became the Deep South. Natchez is in the lower left corner of the map and Augusta in the lower right corner. Fort Pitt is located in the upper right corner. Old Tassel was assassinated in 1788.reproduced from american state papers ...
... later became the Deep South. Natchez is in the lower left corner of the map and Augusta in the lower right corner. Fort Pitt is located in the upper right corner. Old Tassel was assassinated in 1788.reproduced from american state papers ...
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... later advocates) of the emancipated. Deportation, he argued, was made necessary by “deep rooted prejudices entertained by the whites; ten thousand recollections, by the blacks, of the injuries they have sustained; new provocations; the ...
... later advocates) of the emancipated. Deportation, he argued, was made necessary by “deep rooted prejudices entertained by the whites; ten thousand recollections, by the blacks, of the injuries they have sustained; new provocations; the ...
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... later, census takers counted more than 220,000 white and black people in Kentucky and another 105,000 in Tennessee.31 They came largely from Pennsylvania, Vir- ginia, and North Carolina. Some were pushed out by rural over- crowding ...
... later, census takers counted more than 220,000 white and black people in Kentucky and another 105,000 in Tennessee.31 They came largely from Pennsylvania, Vir- ginia, and North Carolina. Some were pushed out by rural over- crowding ...
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... later when the same official ran into a com- pany of Georgia militiamen , the company commander declared “ that he would destroy all Indians he came across , whether friend or foe ; and that he was opposed to peace . ” 42 Indian ...
... later when the same official ran into a com- pany of Georgia militiamen , the company commander declared “ that he would destroy all Indians he came across , whether friend or foe ; and that he was opposed to peace . ” 42 Indian ...
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... later become part of Tennessee) explained that his neighbors believed God had given them the Mississippi River for the use of all mankind, and no Euro- pean power should have the power to restrict their access to it: “These inhabitants ...
... later become part of Tennessee) explained that his neighbors believed God had given them the Mississippi River for the use of all mankind, and no Euro- pean power should have the power to restrict their access to it: “These inhabitants ...
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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