American Mediterranean: Southern Slaveholders in the Age of Emancipation

by Matthew Pratt Guterl

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How did slave-owning Southern planters make sense of the transformation of their world in the Civil War era? Matthew Pratt Guterl shows that they looked beyond their borders for answers. He traces the links that bound them to the wider fraternity of slaveholders in Cuba, Brazil, and elsewhere, and charts their changing political place in the hemisphere. Through such figures as the West Indian Confederate Judah Benjamin, Cuban expatriate Ambrosio Gonzales,...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0674072286

ISBN13:9780674072282

Release Date:March 2013

Publisher:Harvard University Press

Length:250 Pages

Weight:0.70 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"

Related Subjects

Abolition African-American Studies Class Discrimination & Racism History Race Relations Social Science Social Sciences Specific Demographics

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