West of slavery : the Southern dream of a transcontinental empire /
Waite, Kevin (Historian),
West of slavery : the Southern dream of a transcontinental empire / Kevin Waite. - 1 online resource (xv, 372 pages) : illustrations, maps. - The David J. Weber series in the new borderlands history .
Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
"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"--
9781469663210 9781469663203
Slavery--History--Southwestern States--19th century.
African Americans--Social conditions--Southwestern States--19th century.
Indians of North America--Social conditions--Southwestern States--19th century.
Peonage--History--Southwestern States--19th century.
Electronic Books.
E449 / .W478 2021
West of slavery : the Southern dream of a transcontinental empire / Kevin Waite. - 1 online resource (xv, 372 pages) : illustrations, maps. - The David J. Weber series in the new borderlands history .
Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
"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"--
9781469663210 9781469663203
Slavery--History--Southwestern States--19th century.
African Americans--Social conditions--Southwestern States--19th century.
Indians of North America--Social conditions--Southwestern States--19th century.
Peonage--History--Southwestern States--19th century.
Electronic Books.
E449 / .W478 2021