This vast southern empire
slaveholders at the helm of American foreign policy
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Word Count
90,000 words, Guess
Page Count
360 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-100674737253
- ISBN-139780674737259
- Library of Congress Control Number2016009232
- OCLC Control Number942610278
- Better World Books9780674737259
and 1 more
- Open LibraryOL27218181M
Classifications
- DDC306.3/62097309033
- LCCE183.7 .K345 2016
- LCCE183.7.K345 2016
Description
"A new portrait of the southern slaveholders who occupied the commanding heights of antebellum politics, this book explores the intimate relationship between American slavery and American power. From John C. Calhoun to Jefferson Davis, the South's leading statesmen understood the United States as the chief defender of bound labor in an Atlantic World still teetering between slavery and abolition. Overcoming traditional southern scruples about dangers of centralized authority, slaveholders harnessed the power of the United States to protect vulnerable slave regimes across the hemisphere, from Texas to Brazil"--Provided by publisher.
Description
A new portrait of the southern slaveholders who occupied the commanding heights of antebellum politics, this book explores the intimate relationship between American slavery and American power. From John C. Calhoun to Jefferson Davis, the South's leading statesmen understood the United States as the chief defender of bound labor in an Atlantic World still teetering between slavery and abolition. Overcoming traditional southern scruples about dangers of centralized authority, slaveholders harnessed the power of the United States to protect vulnerable slave regimes across the hemisphere, from Texas to Brazil.--
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