Slave Country: American Expansion and the Origins of the Deep South
Adam Rothman
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“they believed Africans were more industrious and less dangerous than enslaved people born into the revolutionary world of the Americas.”
“slaveowners and their allies in the United States tried to protect their country from the most democratic, egalitarian, and terrifying prospect of the Age of Revolution: a generalized slave rebellion.”
“known in the North as the “slave power.” Slaveowners in the Deep South believed in the need for slavery and in their own benevolence as masters.”
“far as slaveowners in the Deep South were concerned, these arrangements inaugurated a golden age, which lasted twenty-five years. The white and black population steadily increased, cotton and sugar production expanded, and the remaining southern Indians were either expelled or brought under the jurisdiction of state laws.”
“a society dependent on plantation slavery could not defend itself. “This Country is strong by Nature,” the committee asserted, “but extremely weak from the nature of its population”
“White Louisianians must have been relieved when the mayor banned free men of color from teaching the martial arts to their brethren. In New Orleans, it seems, good fencers did not make good neighbors—especially when they were colored.”
“Thirty-four of the thirty-five Creek leaders who signed the treaty of surrender had supported the United States during the war, and they were understandably astonished and embittered to find themselves stripped of much of their land.”
“The whole enterprise involved terror and violence.”
“The violence that accompanied American expansion in the Deep South tragically followed from Jefferson’s utopian vision of an empire of liberty moving peacefully across the continent.”
“The impact of the events in St. Domingue on the debate over slavery and abolition in the United States cannot be overestimated.”
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