This vast southern empire
Subtitle: slaveholders at the helm of American foreign policy
By: Matthew Karp
Contributors: Zingarelli, Tom, narrator
Edition: Unabridged.
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Format: [sound recording] :
Number of pages: 30
ISBN-13: 9781541402768
Subjects: Politics and government; Government policy; Power (Social sciences); Slavery; Foreign relations; History
Description: "A new portrait of the southern slaveholders who occupied the commanding heights of antebellum politics, this book explores the intimate relationship between American slavery and American power. From John C. Calhoun to Jefferson Davis, the South's leading statesmen understood the United States as the chief defender of bound labor in an Atlantic World still teetering between slavery and abolition. Overcoming traditional southern scruples about dangers of centralized authority, slaveholders harnessed the power of the United States to protect vulnerable slave regimes across the hemisphere, from Texas to Brazil"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Title from container.

Performed by Tom Zingarelli.