Fascinating, fresh take (at least to me) on antebellum US history. - TopicsExpress



          

Fascinating, fresh take (at least to me) on antebellum US history. This -- "Southern ideologues imagined a spatial fix to their problems on a hemispheric scale. Slave society would have to generate its own free-trade empire to combat a slipping position in the national economy" -- reminds me of Thomas Jefferson as portrayed in "Master of the Mountain": a determined, innovative slaver, intent on economic self-sufficiency and willing to re-re-imagine freedom as something built on the shoulders of chattel.
Posted on: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 04:28:32 +0000

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