West of Slavery : The Southern Dream of a Transcontinental Empire /

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"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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Waite, Kevin (Historian) (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2021]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Peonage > Southwestern States > History > 19th century.
Indians of North America > Southwestern States > Social conditions > 19th century.
African Americans > Southwestern States > Social conditions > 19th century.
Slavery > Southwestern States > History > 19th century.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865.
Southern States > Relations > Southwestern States.
Southwestern States > Relations > Southern States.
Southwestern States > Politics and government > 19th century.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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