Slavery, race and conquest in the tropics : Lincoln, Douglas, and the future of Latin America / Robert E. May, Purdue University.

"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...

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Main Author: May, Robert E.
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Subjects:
Slavery > Political aspects > United States > History > 19th century.
Slavery > United States > Extension to the territories.
United States > Territorial expansion > History > 19th century.
United States > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Causes.
Lincoln, Abraham, > 1809-1865 > Political and social views.
Douglas, Stephen A. > (Stephen Arnold), > 1813-1861 > Political and social views.
Freed persons > Colonization > Latin America.
HISTORY / United States / 19th Century.
Physical Description:xi, 296 pages.
Format: Book

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