@article{1478690,
      recid = {1478690},
      author = {Rothman, Adam, },
      title = {Slave Country : American Expansion and the Origins of the  Deep South /},
      pages = {1 online resource (312 p.)},
      abstract = {Slave Country tells the tragic story of the expansion of  slavery in the new United States. In the wake of the  American Revolution, slavery gradually disappeared from the  northern states and the importation of captive Africans was  prohibited. Yet, at the same time, the country's slave  population grew, new plantation crops appeared, and several  new slave states joined the Union. Adam Rothman explores  how slavery flourished in a new nation dedicated to the  principle of equality among free men, and reveals the  enormous consequences of U.S. expansion into the region  that became the Deep South. Rothman maps the combination of  transatlantic capitalism and American nationalism that  provoked a massive forced migration of slaves into  Louisiana, Alabama, and Mississippi. He tells the  fascinating story of collaboration and conflict among the  diverse European, African, and indigenous peoples who  inhabited the Deep South during the Jeffersonian era, and  who turned the region into the most dynamic slave system of  the Atlantic world. Paying close attention to dramatic  episodes of resistance, rebellion, and war, Rothman exposes  the terrible violence that haunted the Jeffersonian vision  of republican expansion across the American continent.  Slave Country combines political, economic, military, and  social history in an elegant narrative that illuminates the  perilous relation between freedom and slavery in the early  United States. This book is essential reading for anyone  interested in an honest look at America's troubled past.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1478690},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674042919},
}