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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Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2013.
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Physical Description: | xi, 296 pages. |
Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 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.