| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.1

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Adam Rothman. Slave Country: American Expansion and the Origins of the Deep South. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 2005. Pp. xi, 296. $35.00.

Adam Rothman's book is not about essences or origins, despite its subtitle, but about process. The story that moves and grows through his text is one vitally important to any understanding of the nineteenth century, but one that historians are all too eager to move past in their effort to get to the "real" "Old" South. Rothman's subject is the expansion of both American national power and the enslavement of Africans in Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana from 1790 to 1820. Perhaps some will assume that historians have already told this story. They have not, or certainly not like this. Rothman artfully wields political history, analysis of ideology, military history, and biographic description of migrants (free and enslaved) to the new ground on which cotton and sugar had begun to thrive by 1820. He welds narrative and analysis together with a skill that would be remarkable in any monograph, let alone a scholar's first. The result is an important book that sets a new agenda for studying the histories of the early U.S. republic, of the South, and of enslavement in nineteenth-century North America.

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