Chained to History : : Slavery and US Foreign Relations to 1865 / / Steven J. Brady.

In Chained to History, Steven J. Brady places slavery at the center of the story of America's place in the world in the years prior to the calamitous Civil War. Beginning with the immediate aftermath of the War of the American Revolution, Brady follows the military, economic, and moral lines of...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2022
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (240 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: Speaking of Slavery
  • 1. “Things Odious or Immoral”: Britain, Spanish Florida, and Slaves Unfettered
  • 2. “ ’Tis Ill to Fear”: American Responses to the Haitian Revolution
  • 3. “Separate from Foreign Alliances”: Limiting Connections and Commitments
  • 4. “Fully Meets Its Responsibility”: The Limits of American Unilateralism
  • 5. “Only Cowards Fear and Oppose It”: Texas and Cuba
  • 6. “Its Peculiar Moral Force”: Lincoln, Emancipation, and Colonization
  • Epilogue: American Foreign Relations Unchained
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Bibliographic Essay
  • Index