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West of Slavery The Southern Dream of a Transcontinental Empire
Title
West of Slavery The Southern Dream of a Transcontinental Empire / Kevin Waite.
ISBN
9781469663210
146966321X
9781469663197
Publication
Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2021]
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021
Copyright Notice Date
©[2021]
Physical Description
1 online resource ( xv, 372 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Description based on print version record.
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Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
"When American slaveholders looked west in the mid-nineteenth century, they saw an empire unfolding before them. They pursued that vision through war, diplomacy, political patronage, and perhaps most effectively, the power of migration. By the eve of the Civil War, slaveholders and their allies had transformed the southwestern quarter of the nation--California, New Mexico, Arizona, and parts of Utah--into an appendage of the South's plantation states. Across this vast swath of the map, white Southerners extended the institution of African American chattel slavery while also defending systems of Native American bondage. This surprising history uncovers the Old South in unexpected places, far west of the cotton fields and sugar plantations that exemplify the region"-- Provided by publisher.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 24, 2021
Series
The David J. Weber series in the new borderlands history
Contents
The Southern dream of a Pacific empire
The great slavery road
The lesser slavery road
The southernization of antebellum California
Slavery in the Desert South
The continental crisis of the Union
West of the Confederacy
Reconstruction and the afterlife of the continental South.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Electronic books.
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Project Muse. distributor
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