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American History
American South
Antebellum
Argentina
Author_Claire M. Wolnisty
Borderlands
Brazil
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Civil War
Commercial Expansionist
Economics
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Expansionism
Expansionist
Filibuster
Filibusterer
History
International Relations
International Slave Trade
Latin America
Latin American History
Latin American Studies
Pacific Ocean
Slave Labor
Slavery
South American History
Southern Emigrant
Southern Migrant
Transnational Power
Transnational Studies
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- ISBN 9781496237064
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 Dec 2023
- Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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The U.S. South possessed an extensive history of looking outward, specifically southward, to solve internal tensions over slavery and economic competition from the 1820s through the 1860s. Nineteenth-century southerners invested in their futures, and in their identity as southerners, when they expanded their economic and proslavery connections to Latin America, seeking to establish a vast empire rooted in slavery that stretched southward to Brazil and westward to the Pacific Ocean. For these modern expansionists, failure to cement those connections meant nothing less than the death of the South.
In A Different Manifest Destiny Claire M. Wolnisty explores how elite white U.S. southerners positioned themselves as modern individuals engaged in struggles for transnational power from the antebellum to the Civil War era. By focusing on three groups of people not often studied together-filibusters, commercial expansionists, and postwar southern emigrants-Wolnisty complicates traditional narratives about Civil War–era southern identities and the development of Manifest Destiny. She traces the ways southerners capitalized on Latin American connections to promote visions of modernity compatible with slave labor and explores how southern–Latin American networks spanned the years of the Civil War.
In A Different Manifest Destiny Claire M. Wolnisty explores how elite white U.S. southerners positioned themselves as modern individuals engaged in struggles for transnational power from the antebellum to the Civil War era. By focusing on three groups of people not often studied together-filibusters, commercial expansionists, and postwar southern emigrants-Wolnisty complicates traditional narratives about Civil War–era southern identities and the development of Manifest Destiny. She traces the ways southerners capitalized on Latin American connections to promote visions of modernity compatible with slave labor and explores how southern–Latin American networks spanned the years of the Civil War.
Claire M. Wolnisty is an associate professor of history at Austin College.
