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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... politics that emerged from the Revolution. The entangling of freedom and slavery in the early national era was starkly revealed in the popular claim among slavery's defenders that the legacy of the American Revolution included the right ...
... politics that emerged from the Revolution. The entangling of freedom and slavery in the early national era was starkly revealed in the popular claim among slavery's defenders that the legacy of the American Revolution included the right ...
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... political circumstances that strengthened slaveowners ' power and set slavery on the road to expansion . The slave population of the new United States was large and growing . In a country of al- most 3.9 million people in 1790 , nearly ...
... political circumstances that strengthened slaveowners ' power and set slavery on the road to expansion . The slave population of the new United States was large and growing . In a country of al- most 3.9 million people in 1790 , nearly ...
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... political bloc in the new re- public, the structure of politics amplified their power. Despite the popular mobilization of the revolutionary era, national office holding remained the province of elites, who were more likely to be slave ...
... political bloc in the new re- public, the structure of politics amplified their power. Despite the popular mobilization of the revolutionary era, national office holding remained the province of elites, who were more likely to be slave ...
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... the Constitution and the antislavery petitions reveal regional and ideological fissures in the early national politics of slavery. Many white northerners disliked slavery on philosophical grounds Jefferson's Horizon 5.
... the Constitution and the antislavery petitions reveal regional and ideological fissures in the early national politics of slavery. Many white northerners disliked slavery on philosophical grounds Jefferson's Horizon 5.
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... 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 emancipation by their ...
... 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 emancipation by their ...
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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