| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.1

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Book Review

South by Southwest: Planter Emigration and Identity in the Slave South. By James David Miller. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2002. xiv, 205 pp. $32.50, ISBN 0-8139-2117-1.)

Geographic restlessness permeated the Old South, as some of the region's most astute observers have long understood. The mania for frontier cotton helped William Dodd dramatize secessionists' "conservative revolt," while this same feverish move west has informed William Freehling's recent story of southern politicians' preoccupation with slavery's diffusion. The raw, acquisitive, often ruthless world sketched by W. J. Cash and James Oakes continues to inspire monographs on those southwestern migrations that reshaped the South as profoundly as they transformed the lives of free white and enslaved black pioneers.

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