Unsettling the South: War, Expansion, and Slavery in the Southern United States, 1780-1840

"Unsettling the South" is a history of the first half-century of US expansion in the southern interior. It traces how debt, land sales, road building, war making, and migration transformed the United States from an indebted former colony into an expanding empire dependent on plantation sla...

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Main Author: Stevens, Katherine May
Other Authors: Johnson, Walter
Language:en_US
Published: Harvard University 2014
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Online Access:http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard.inactive:11713
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:13064990