Interview with Kevin Waite--Convict Lease in Antebellum West inspiration for New South?
Channel: H- CivWar
Date: 02/06/2021

Recently, I had the opportunity to interview Kevin Waite via Zoom. We talked about his new book West of Slavery: The Southern Dream of a Transcontinental Empire, which was just released by the University of North Carolina Press. The interview is broken up so that you can easily use the material in class. https://uncpress.org/book/9781469663197/west-of-slavery/

Kevin Waite is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and an assistant professor of history at Durham University. His writings have also appeared in the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, the Journal of the Civil War Era, and California History.

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