Slavery, Race, and Conquest in the Tropics: Lincoln, Douglas, and the Future of Latin America

by Robert E. May

Book Overview

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 from evidence that slaveholders, with Douglas's assistance, planned to follow up successes in Kansas by bringing Cuba, Mexico, and Central America into...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521132525
• ISBN13: 9780521132527
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 310 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"