American Mediterranean: Southern Slaveholders in the Age of Emancipation

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How did slave-owning Southern planters make sense of the transformation in their world within the Civil War era? Matthew Pratt Guterl shows that they looked beyond their borders for answers. He traces the links that bound them to the broader fraternity of slaveholders in Cuba, Brazil, and somewhere else, and charts their changing political place within the hemisphere. Through such figures because the West Indian Confederate Judah Benjamin, Cuban expatriate Ambrosio Gonzales, and the exile Eliza McHatton, Guterl examines how the Southern elite hooked up―by go back and forth, print culture, even the possibility of long run conquest―with the communities of New World slaveholders as they redefined their world. He analyzes why they invested in a vision of the circum-Caribbean, and how their commitment to this broader slave-owning community fared. From Insurrection exiles in Cuba to West Indian apprenticeship and the Black Codes to the “labor problem” of the postwar South, this beautifully written book recasts the nineteenth-century South as a complicated borderland in a pan-American vision.

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