Slavemaster president : the double career of James Polk
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Slavemaster president : the double career of James Polk
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The work Slavemaster president : the double career of James Polk represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Waubonsee Community College. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.
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- Slavemaster president : the double career of James Polk
- Title remainder
- the double career of James Polk
- Statement of responsibility
- William Dusinberre
- Subject
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- Amerikaanse burgeroorlog
- Biography
- History
- Mississippi
- Plantages
- Plantation owners
- Plantation owners -- Mississippi -- Biography
- Plantation owners -- Tennessee -- Biography
- Polk, James K
- Polk, James K, 1795-1849
- Polk, James K., (James Knox), 1795-1849
- Polk, James K., (James Knox), 1795-1849
- 1800-1899
- Presidents
- Presidents -- United States -- Biography
- Presidentschap
- Relations with slaves
- Slavernij
- Slavery
- Slavery -- Mississippi -- History -- 19th century
- Slavery -- Tennessee -- History -- 19th century
- Tennessee
- United States
- Polk, James K., (James Knox), 1795-1849 -- Relations with slaves
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- James K. Polk held the office of President from 1845 to 1849, a period when the expansion of slavery into the territories emerged as a pressing question in American politics. During his presidency, the slave period of Texas was annexed and the future of slavery in the Mexican Cession was debated. Polk also owned a substantial cotton plantation in northern Mississippi and 54 slaves. He was an absentee master who had a string of overseers or agents manage his plantation and did not visit his estate while he was in the White House. In this book, William Dusinberre reconstructs the world of Polk's estate and the lives of his slaves, and analyzes how Polk's experience as a slavemaster conditioned his stance towards slavery-related issues. Dusinberre argues that Polk's policies helped precipitate the civil war he had sought to avert
- Biography type
- individual biography
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- Dewey number
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- 973.6/1/092
- B
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- maps
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- E417
- LC item number
- .D87 2003
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
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