Slave Country American Expansion and the Origins of the Deep South

Name: Slave Country American Expansion and the Origins of the Deep South
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ISBN: 9780674024168

ISBN-10: 0674024168

ISBN-13: 9780674024168

Edition: 2005

Authors: Adam Rothman

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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…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 4/30/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 312
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.85" tall
Weight: 1.012
Language: English

Gregory P. Downs is Associate Professor of History at City College and Graduate Center, City University of New York.Adam Rothman is Associate Professor of History, Georgetown University.



Preface



Jefferson's Horizon



Civilizing the Cotton Frontier



Commerce and Slavery in Lower Louisiana



The Wartime Challenge



Fulfilling the Slave Country


Epilogue


Abbreviations


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index