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 the Union as slave states. A skeptic about "Manifest Destiny;" Lincoln opposed the war with Mexico; condemned Americans invading Latin America; and warned that Douglas's "popular sovereignty" doctrine would unleash U.S. slaveholders throughout Latin America. This book internationalizes America's showdown over slavery; shedding new light on the Lincoln-Douglas rivalry and Lincoln's Civil War scheme to resettle freed slaves in the tropics.
#2305092 in Books 2015-09-01Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 9.00 x .80 x 6.00l; .0 #File Name: 0520286200296 pages
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