TY  - BOOK
AU  - Waite,Kevin
TI  - West of slavery: the Southern dream of a transcontinental empire 
T2  - The David J. Weber series in the new borderlands history
SN  - 9781469663210
AV  - E449 .W478 2021
KW  - Slavery
KW  - Southwestern States
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Indians of North America
KW  - Peonage
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - "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"--
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