Slavemaster president : the double career of James Polk /
James K. Polk held the office of President from 1845 to 1849, a period when the expansion of slavery into the territories emerged as a pressing question in American politics. During his presidency, the slave period of Texas was annexed and the future of slavery in the Mexican Cession was debated. Po...
Основен автор: | Dusinberre, William, 1930- |
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Формат: | Електронна книга |
Език: | English |
Публикувано: |
New York :
Oxford University Press,
2003.
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Онлайн достъп: |
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Slavemaster president. |
Съдържание:
- A market for labor power
- Flight (I) Tennessee
- Flight (II) the Mississippi planation
- Profit
- The nature of the regime
- The spirit of governance
- Births and deaths
- Family and community
- Privileges
- Polk's early response to the antislavery movement
- Texas and the Mexican War
- Slavery and Union
- Alternatives.