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1 online resource (1 audio file (10hr., 31 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
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Read by Tom Zingarelli. |
| Summary |
For proslavery leaders like John C. Calhoun and Jefferson Davis, the nineteenth-century world was torn between two hostile forces: a rising movement against bondage, and an Atlantic plantation system that was larger and more productive than ever before. In this great struggle, southern statesmen saw the United States as slavery's most powerful champion. Overcoming traditional qualms about a strong central government, slaveholding leaders harnessed the power of the state to defend slavery abroad. During the antebellum years, they worked energetically to modernize the U.S. military, while steering American diplomacy to protect slavery in Brazil, Cuba, and the Republic of Texas. As Matthew Karp demonstrates, these leaders were nationalists, not separatists. Their "vast southern empire" was not an independent South but the entire United States, and only the election of Abraham Lincoln broke their grip on national power. Fortified by years at the helm of U.S. foreign affairs, slave-holding elites formed their own Confederacy-not only as a desperate effort to preserve their property but as a confident bid to shape the future of the Atlantic world. |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Slavery -- Government policy -- United States -- History.
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Slavery -- Political aspects -- United States -- History.
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United States -- Foreign relations -- 1783-1865.
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United States -- Politics and government -- 1783-1865.
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Power (Social sciences) -- United States -- History.
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Zingarelli, Tom.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781541422766 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1541422767 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT11879365 |
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