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American Mediterranean : Southern slaveholders in the age of emancipation /

How did slave-owning Southern planters make sense of the transformation of their world in the Civil War era? Matthew Pratt Guterl shows that they looked beyond their borders for answers. He traces the links that bound them to the wider fraternity of slaveholders in Cuba, Brazil, and elsewhere, and c...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Guterl, Matthew Pratt, 1970-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2008.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The American Mediterranean
  • The white republic of the tropics
  • The promise of exile
  • The labor problem
  • Latitudes and longitudes.