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West of Slavery: The Southern Dream of a Transcontinental Empire

by Kevin Waite

When American slaveholders looked west in the mid-nineteenth century, they saw an empire unfolding before them. They pursued that vision through diplomacy, migration, and armed conquest. By the late 1850s, slaveholders and their allies had transformed the southwestern quarter of the nation – California, New Mexico, Arizona, and parts of Utah – into a politic

Publisher

University of North Carolina Press

Publication date

2021

Format

Print edition

Pages

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ISBN

9781469663197