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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
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Lynn Smith
reviewed Slave Country: American Expansion and the Origins of the Deep South on October 16, 2017
Slave Country: American Expansion and the Origins of the Deep South
Why, despite Jefferson's belief that slavery would eventually die a natural, organic death, did slavery nonetheless expand and then become entrenched?
Adam Rothman argues that it's a combination of global economic and diplomatic factors that turned the Southwest into prime cotton-producing and sugar-producing territory at the edge of the modern, Atlantic economy-- and subsequently, the United States into "slave country."
Rothman has a very acute sense of all of the movable parts, not just internationally, but on the ground in the Southwest. Slavery not only affects everything it touches, but it complicates everything it touches-- take, for example, native-white relations when they involve the developing domestic slave market and runaway slaves. His book is solid on the diplomatic stakes, and offers food for thought regarding African American military history during the War of 1812. It's a good book to be read in conjunction with the likes of newer work like Edward Baptist, "The Half Has Never Been Told" and Walter Johnson, "River of Dark Dreams."
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