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James Madison, the South, and the Trans-Appalachian West, 1783-1803

By Jeffrey Allen Zemler

Book information

Publisher
Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
Year
2013
ISBN
9780739182185, 9780739182178
LCC
F213.Z46 2014eb
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (3924443 bytes)
Pages
223\223
Time added
2023-08-05 23:21:45
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Description

The strong relationship that historians have described between the South and the trans-Appalachian West in the early nineteenth century had its origins in the twenty-year period after the American Revolution when a group of far-sighted southerners, with James Madison in the forefront, worked to form a political bond between the two regions. While many historians have taken this close relationship for granted or have dismissed it as a natural product of cultural similarities, strong family bonds and slavery being just two, it was built deliberately by a handful of forward-looking southerners with hard work and dedication. Jeffrey A. Zemler carefully analyzes the development of this bond and the history of these two regions during this twenty-year period, which is far more complicated than historians have imagined or described.

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