Slavery, Race, and Conquest in the Tropics Lincoln, Douglas, and the Future of Latin America |
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| Author:
| May, Robert E. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-521-13252-7 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2013 |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $33.99 |
Book Description:
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This book reinterprets the causes of the American Civil War, especially the controversy in the West that led to the South's withdrawal from the Union. 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 because of evidence that slaveholders planned to make Cuba, Mexico, and Central America into new slave states.
This book reinterprets the causes of the American Civil War, especially the controversy in the West that led to the South's withdrawal from the Union. 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 because of evidence that slaveholders planned to make Cuba, Mexico, and Central America into new slave states.