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Breaking the Blockade : The Bahamas during the Civil War /
"On April 16, 1861, President Abraham Lincoln issued a blockade of the Confederate coastline. The largely agrarian South did not have the industrial base to succeed in a protracted conflict. What it did have-and what England and other foreign countries wanted-was cotton and tobacco. Industrious...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
[2021]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Two arrivals
- The stage is set. George Trenholm sees the future ; Heyliger arrives
- Interlude: why Nassau? "This remote western maritime colony" ; The Bay Street boys
- The great carnival. Putting the pieces in place ; The lions of the Royal Victoria ; Yellow Jack ; A new consul ; Living for the hour ; Trouble in New York
- The curtain falls. "It is rather sickly here" ; "Blockade-running from this port has ceased" ; Like a town sacked and burned by the enemy.