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Robert E. May - Slavery, Race, and Conquest in the Tropics, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2013

Slavery, Race, and Conquest in the Tropics

Lincoln, Douglas, and the Future of Latin America

Av Robert E. May

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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 US 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.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2013-10-07
  • Mått: 152 x 231 x 23 mm
  • Vikt: 630 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 310
  • Förlag: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 9780521763837
  • Utmärkelser: Short-listed for Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize 2014
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Robert E. May is a Professor of History at Purdue University. He is the author of Manifest Destiny's Underworld: Filibustering in Antebellum America (2002); John A. Quitman: Old South Crusader (1985), winner of the Mississippi Historical Society's book prize; and The Southern Dream of a Caribbean Empire (1973). He is editor of The Union, the Confederacy, and the Atlantic Rim (1995).

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'It is a truism that the issue of slavery's expansion triggered secession and the Civil War. But as Robert May shows in this important study, it was the possible expansion of slavery southward more than the prospect of slavery in Kansas or other Western territories that provoked passionate controversy. This welcome book gives due weight to pro-Cuban annexationists and Central-American filibusters in the coming of war.' James M. McPherson, Princeton University, New Jersey

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