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This Vast Southern Empire - Slaveholders at the Helm of American Foreign Policy (Hardcover)
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When the United States emerged as a world power in the years before
the Civil War, the men who presided over the nation's triumphant
territorial and economic expansion were largely southern
slaveholders. As presidents, cabinet officers, and diplomats,
slaveholding leaders controlled the main levers of foreign policy
inside an increasingly powerful American state. This Vast Southern
Empire explores the international vision and strategic operations
of these southerners at the commanding heights of American
politics. 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, slaveholding 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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