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1 online resource (xv, 372 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
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text file |
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The David J. Weber series in the new borderlands history
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David J. Weber series in the new borderlands history.
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| Summary |
"When American slaveholders looked west in the mid-nineteenth century, they saw an empire unfolding before them. They pursued that vision through war, diplomacy, political patronage, and perhaps most effectively, the power of migration. By the eve of the Civil War, slaveholders and their allies had transformed the southwestern quarter of the nation--California, New Mexico, Arizona, and parts of Utah--into an appendage of the South's plantation states. Across this vast swath of the map, white Southerners extended the institution of African American chattel slavery while also defending systems of Native American bondage. This surprising history uncovers the Old South in unexpected places, far west of the cotton fields and sugar plantations that exemplify the region"-- Provided by publisher |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The Southern dream of a Pacific empire -- The great slavery road -- The lesser slavery road -- The southernization of antebellum California -- Slavery in the Desert South -- The continental crisis of the Union -- West of the Confederacy -- Reconstruction and the afterlife of the continental South. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Slavery -- Southwestern States -- History -- 19th century.
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Slavery. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
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African Americans -- Southwestern States -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
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African Americans. |
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Social conditions. |
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Indians of North America -- Southwestern States -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
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Indians of North America. |
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Peonage -- Southwestern States -- History -- 19th century.
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Southwestern States -- Politics and government -- 19th century.
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Southwestern States -- Relations -- Southern States.
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Southern States -- Relations -- Southwestern States.
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Southern States. |
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Relations. |
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
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Peonage. |
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HISTORY -- United States -- Civil War Period (1850-1877) |
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African Americans -- Social conditions. |
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Indians of North America -- Social conditions. |
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International relations. |
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Politics and government. |
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United States. |
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United States -- Southwestern States. |
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American Civil War (United States : 1861-1865) |
| Chronological Term |
1800-1899 |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Waite, Kevin (Historian). West of slavery. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2021] 9781469663180 (DLC) 2020044309 (OCoLC)1196241526 |
| ISBN |
146966321X (electronic book) |
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9781469663210 (electronic book) |
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1469663201 (electronic book) |
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9781469663203 (electronic book) |
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9781469663180 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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146966318X (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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9781469663197 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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1469663198 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
