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Slavemaster president : the double career of James Polk

著者: William Dusinberre
出版商: New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
版本/格式:   图书 : 传记 : 英语查看所有的版本和格式
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James K. Polk held the office of President from 1845 to 1849, a period when the expansion of slavery into the territories emerged as a pressing question in American politics. During his presidency, the slave period of Texas was annexed and the future of slavery in the Mexican Cession was debated. Polk also owned a substantial cotton plantation in northern Mississippi and 54 slaves. He was an absentee master who had  再读一些...
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类型/形式: Biography
提及的人: James K Polk; James K Polk; James K Polk
材料类型: 传记, 互联网资源
文件类型: 书, 互联网资源
所有的著者/提供者: William Dusinberre
ISBN: 0195157354 9780195157352
OCLC号码: 50064690
描述: xiv, 258 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm.
内容: A market for labor power --
Flight (I) Tennessee --
Flight (II) the Mississippi planation --
Profit --
The nature of the regime --
The spirit of governance --
Births and deaths --
Family and community --
Privileges --
Polk's early response to the antislavery movement --
Texas and the Mexican War --
Slavery and Union --
Alternatives.
责任: William Dusinberre.
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James K. Polk held the office of President from 1845 to 1849, a period when the expansion of slavery into the territories emerged as a pressing question in American politics. During his presidency, the slave period of Texas was annexed and the future of slavery in the Mexican Cession was debated. Polk also owned a substantial cotton plantation in northern Mississippi and 54 slaves. He was an absentee master who had a string of overseers or agents manage his plantation and did not visit his estate while he was in the White House. In this book, William Dusinberre reconstructs the world of Polk's estate and the lives of his slaves, and analyzes how Polk's experience as a slavemaster conditioned his stance towards slavery-related issues. Dusinberre argues that Polk's policies helped precipitate the civil war he had sought to avert.

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