Slave Country: American Expansion and the Origins of the Deep South

by Adam Rothman

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674016742
• ISBN13: 9780674016743
• Release Date: April 2005
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 8.7"