"Slave Country" tells the tragic story of the expansion of slavery
in the new United States. In the wake of the American Revolution,
slavery gradually disappeared from the northern states and the
importation of captive Africans was prohibited. Yet, at the same
time, the country's slave population grew, new plantation crops
appeared, and several new slave states joined the Union. Adam
Rothman explores how slavery flourished in a new nation dedicated
to the principle of equality among free men, and reveals the
enormous consequences of U.S. expansion into the region that became
the Deep South.
Rothman maps the combination of transatlantic capitalism and
American nationalism that provoked a massive forced migration of
slaves into Louisiana, Alabama, and Mississippi. He tells the
fascinating story of collaboration and conflict among the diverse
European, African, and indigenous peoples who inhabited the Deep
South during the Jeffersonian era, and who turned the region into
the most dynamic slave system of the Atlantic world. Paying close
attention to dramatic episodes of resistance, rebellion, and war,
Rothman exposes the terrible violence that haunted the Jeffersonian
vision of republican expansion across the American continent.
"Slave Country" combines political, economic, military, and
social history in an elegant narrative that illuminates the
perilous relation between freedom and slavery in the early United
States. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in an
honest look at America's troubled past.
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