Slavery, Race, and Conquest in the Tropics: Lincoln, Douglas, and the Future of Latin America

by Robert E. May

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Slavery, Race, and Conquest in the Tropics challenges the way historians interpret the causes of the American Civil War. 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 from evidence that slaveholders, with Douglas's assistance, planned to follow up successes in Kansas by bringing Cuba, Mexico, and Central America into...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0521132525

ISBN13:9780521132527

Release Date:October 2013

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Length:310 Pages

Weight:1.10 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"

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History Social Science Social Sciences

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