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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... laws for gradual rather than immediate emancipation in most of the northern states. Most northerners were reluctant to extend this pattern of gradual emanci- pation to the southern states. Some were relatively indifferent toward slavery ...
... laws for gradual rather than immediate emancipation in most of the northern states. Most northerners were reluctant to extend this pattern of gradual emanci- pation to the southern states. Some were relatively indifferent toward slavery ...
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... laws and repudiating a Methodist antislavery campaign. Petitioners from Lunenberg County declared that they had “seald with our Blood, a Ti- tle to the full, free, and absolute Enjoyment of every species of our Property, whensoever, or ...
... laws and repudiating a Methodist antislavery campaign. Petitioners from Lunenberg County declared that they had “seald with our Blood, a Ti- tle to the full, free, and absolute Enjoyment of every species of our Property, whensoever, or ...
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... aids to our treasury , an ample provision for our posterity , and a wide - spread field for the blessings of freedom and equal laws . ” 61 With Pinckney's Treaty and the Louisiana Purchase , the United Jefferson's Horizon 17.
... aids to our treasury , an ample provision for our posterity , and a wide - spread field for the blessings of freedom and equal laws . ” 61 With Pinckney's Treaty and the Louisiana Purchase , the United Jefferson's Horizon 17.
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... law banning further slave importation after 1 January 1808, the trade was legal only in South Carolina—and even there ... laws preventing the further importation of slaves, and that they had not brought any slaves with them into Virginia ...
... law banning further slave importation after 1 January 1808, the trade was legal only in South Carolina—and even there ... laws preventing the further importation of slaves, and that they had not brought any slaves with them into Virginia ...
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... Laws banning the importation and interstate transfer of slaves con- tributed to the evolution of proslavery doctrine ... law and honor failed to prevent the emergence of a sizable interstate slave trade.71 A final element in the concept ...
... Laws banning the importation and interstate transfer of slaves con- tributed to the evolution of proslavery doctrine ... law and honor failed to prevent the emergence of a sizable interstate slave trade.71 A final element in the concept ...
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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