Slave Country

Informationen zum Autor Adam Rothman is Assistant Professor of History! Georgetown University. Klappentext in the early United States. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in an honest look at America's troubled past. Zusammenfassung Rothman explores how slavery flourished in a new nation dedicated to the principle of equality among free men! and reveals the enormous consequences of U.S. expansion into the region that became the Deep South. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface 1. Jefferson's Horizon 2. Civilizing the Cotton Frontier 3. Commerce and Slavery in Lower Louisiana 4. The Wartime Challenge 5. Fulfilling the Slave Country Epilogue Abbreviations Notes Acknowledgments Index

Autorentext

Adam Rothman

Klappentext

in the early United States. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in an honest look at America's troubled past.

Zusammenfassung
Rothman explores how slavery flourished in a new nation dedicated to the principle of equality among free men, and reveals the enormous consequences of U.S. expansion into the region that became the Deep South.

Inhalt

Preface 1. Jefferson's Horizon 2. Civilizing the Cotton Frontier 3. Commerce and Slavery in Lower Louisiana 4. The Wartime Challenge 5. Fulfilling the Slave Country Epilogue Abbreviations Notes Acknowledgments Index