San Antonio College Library

Covers the effects of dealing with slavery on the growth of the federal government: the navy grew to intercept slave ships after 1808, the army grew to clear Indians out of the way to keep slave markets stable, the federal government rented slaves, and a new kind of partnership between the government and the private sector emerged to found the colony of Liberia. Many scholars believe that the existence of slavery stymied the development of the American...

"In When Slavery Was Called Freedom, author John Patrick Daly astutely dissects the evangelical defense of slavery at the heart of the nineteenth century's sectional crisis. He brings a new understanding to the role of religion in the Old South and the ways in which religion was put to use in the Confederacy. Southern evangelicals argued that their unique region was destined for greatness, and their rhetoric gave expression and a degree of coherence...