This Vast Southern Empire: Slaveholders at the Helm of American Foreign Policy

This Vast Southern Empire: Slaveholders at the Helm of American Foreign Policy

When the United States emerged as a world power in the years before the Civil War, the men who presided over the nation s triumphant territorial and economic expansion were largely southern slaveholde…

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