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245 10 a| Slavery, race, and conquest in the tropics :b| Lincoln, Douglas, and the future of Latin America /c| Robert E. May, Purdue University.;

264 1 a| New York :b| Cambridge University Press,c| 2013.;

300 a| xi, 296 pages :b| illustrations, maps ;c| 23 cm;

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504 a| Includes bibliographical references and index.;

505 0 a| Introduction -- 1. A "spot" for manifest destiny -- 2. Antilles to Isthmus -- 3. Beyond Kansas -- 4. Caribbeanizing the house divided -- 5. A matter of inches -- 6. Freedom in the tropics -- Coda.;

520 a| "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 the Union as slave states. A skeptic about "Manifest Destiny," Lincoln opposed the war with Mexico, condemned Americans invading Latin America, and warned that Douglas's "popular sovereignty" doctrine would unleash U.S. slaveholders throughout Latin America. This book internationalizes America's showdown over slavery, shedding new light on the Lincoln-Douglas rivalry and Lincoln's Civil War scheme to resettle freed slaves in the tropics"--c| Provided by publisher.;

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Slavery, race, and conquest in the tropics : Lincoln, Douglas, and the future of Latin America / Robert E. May, Purdue University.

Author/creator	May, Robert E. author.
Format	Book
Publication	New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Description	xi, 296 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Supplemental Content	Cover image
Subjects	Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Political and social views. Douglas, Stephen A. (Stephen Arnold), 1813-1861--Political and social views. Slavery--Political aspects. --United States. --History. --19th century. Slavery--United States. --Extension to the territories. Freed persons--Colonization. --Latin America. United States--Territorial expansion. --History. --19th century. United States--History. --Civil War, 1861-1865. --Causes.

Contents	Introduction -- 1. A "spot" for manifest destiny -- 2. Antilles to Isthmus -- 3. Beyond Kansas -- 4. Caribbeanizing the house divided -- 5. A matter of inches -- 6. Freedom in the tropics -- Coda.
Abstract	"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 the Union as slave states. A skeptic about "Manifest Destiny," Lincoln opposed the war with Mexico, condemned Americans invading Latin America, and warned that Douglas's "popular sovereignty" doctrine would unleash U.S. slaveholders throughout Latin America. This book internationalizes America's showdown over slavery, shedding new light on the Lincoln-Douglas rivalry and Lincoln's Civil War scheme to resettle freed slaves in the tropics"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN	2013018644
ISBN	9780521763837 (hardback)
ISBN	0521763835 (hardback)
ISBN	9780521132527 (paperback)
ISBN	0521132525 (paperback)

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