Chained to History: Slavery and Us Foreign Relations to 1865

by Steven J. Brady

Book Overview

In Chained to History, Steven J. Brady places slavery at the center of the story of America's place in the world in the years prior to the calamitous Civil War. Beginning with the immediate aftermath of the War of the American Revolution, Brady follows the military, economic, and moral lines of the diplomatic challenges of attempting to manage, on the global stage, the actuality of human servitude in a country dedicated...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501778951
• ISBN13: 9781501778957
• Release Date: October 2024
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 240 Pages