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Slavery, Race, and Conquest in the Tropics
Lincoln, Douglas, and the Future of Latin America
Author: May Robert E.
Robert E. May internationalizes the American Civil War and reinterprets the 1860 presidential campaign, shedding new light on the Lincoln-Douglas rivalry.
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Publication date: 10-2013
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Slavery, Race, and Conquest in the Tropics
Publication date: 10-2013
310 p. · 15x22.6 cm · Paperback
Publication date: 10-2013
310 p. · 15x22.6 cm · Paperback
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Slavery, Race, and Conquest in the Tropics challenges the way historians interpret the causes of the American Civil War. Using Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas's famed rivalry as a prism, Robert E. May shows that when Lincoln and fellow Republicans opposed slavery in the West, they did so partly from evidence that slaveholders, with Douglas's assistance, planned to follow up successes in Kansas by bringing Cuba, Mexico, and Central America into the Union as slave states. A skeptic about 'Manifest Destiny', Lincoln opposed the war with Mexico, condemned Americans invading Latin America, and warned that Douglas's 'popular sovereignty' doctrine would unleash US slaveholders throughout Latin America. This book internationalizes America's showdown over slavery, shedding new light on the Lincoln-Douglas rivalry and Lincoln's Civil War scheme to resettle freed slaves in the tropics.
1. A spot for manifest destiny; 2. Antilles to Isthmus; 3. Beyond Kansas; 4. Caribbeanizing the house divided; 5. A matter of inches; 6. Freedom in the tropics.
Robert E. May is a Professor of History at Purdue University. He is the author of Manifest Destiny's Underworld: Filibustering in Antebellum America (2002); John A. Quitman: Old South Crusader (1985), winner of the Mississippi Historical Society's book prize; and The Southern Dream of a Caribbean Empire (1973). He is editor of The Union, the Confederacy, and the Atlantic Rim (1995).
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