Slavery, Race, and Conquest in the Tropics: Lincoln, Douglas, and the Future of Latin America
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Publication
2013-10-07 - Cambridge University Press
Word Count
77,500 words, Guess
Page Count
310 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL26798634M
- ISBN-139780521132527
- ISBN-100521132525
- OCLC Control Number845349791
- Library of Congress Control Number2013018644
Classifications
- LCCE338 .M338 2013
Description
"Slavery, Race, and Conquest in the Tropics challenges the way historians interpret the causes of the American Civil War. Using Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas's famed rivalry as a prism, Robert E. May shows that when Lincoln and fellow Republicans opposed slavery in the West, they did so partly from evidence that slaveholders, with Douglas's assistance, planned to follow up successes in Kansas by bringing Cuba, Mexico, and Central America into the Union as slave states. A skeptic about "Manifest Destiny," Lincoln opposed the war with Mexico, condemned Americans invading Latin America, and warned that Douglas's "popular sovereignty" doctrine would unleash U.S. slaveholders throughout Latin America. This book internationalizes America's showdown over slavery, shedding new light on the Lincoln-Douglas rivalry and Lincoln's Civil War scheme to resettle freed slaves in the tropics"--
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