| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.4

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Book Review

Slave Country: American Expansion and the Origins of the Deep South. By Adam Rothman. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2005. xiv, 296 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-674-01674-2.)

Adam Rothman's Slave Country is destined to be included on the must-read list of any serious student of antebellum slavery in the United States. The work is both significant and formative in that it recognizes the establishment of the new states of Louisiana (1812), Mississippi (1817), and Alabama (1819) as portending the formation of a Deep South ethos that defended slavery at all costs. Along with this geographic expansion, Rothman associates the concomitant rise of upland cotton and sugar, which unleashed new market forces and an insatiable demand that could be matched only by a rigid defense of the peculiar institution. In this regional transformation, the particular demands of the Deep South became the driving force behind national policy as the exigencies of regionalism became central to national life.

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