

This Vast Southern Empire
Slaveholders at the Helm of American Foreign Policy
Author: Matthew Karp
Narrator: Tom Zingarelli
Unabridged: 10 hr 30 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Tantor Media
Published: 04/30/2017
Categories: Nonfiction, History, Us History
Synopsis
As Matthew Karp demonstrates, these leaders were nationalists, not separatists. Their "vast southern empire" was not an independent South but the entire United States, and only the election of Abraham Lincoln broke their grip on national power. Fortified by years at the helm of U.S. foreign affairs, slave-holding elites formed their own Confederacy—not only as a desperate effort to preserve their property but as a confident bid to shape the future of the Atlantic world.