TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dusinberre,William
TI  - Slavemaster president: the double career of James Polk 
SN  - 0195157354 (acid-free paper)
AV  - E417 D973s 2003
U1  - 973.6/1/092B 21
PY  - 2003///
CY  - New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Polk, James K.
KW  - Presidents
KW  - United States
KW  - Biography
KW  - Plantation owners
KW  - Tennessee
KW  - Mississippi
KW  - Slavery
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Slavernij
KW  - gtt
KW  - Plantages
KW  - Presidentschap
KW  - Amerikaanse burgeroorlog
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-252) and index; A market for labor power -- Flight (I) Tennessee -- Flight (II) the Mississippi planation -- Profit -- The nature of the regime -- The spirit of governance -- Births and deaths -- Family and community -- Privileges -- Polk's early response to the antislavery movement -- Texas and the Mexican War -- Slavery and Union -- Alternatives
N2  - 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
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