1. The Spread of Slavery and
The Crisis of Southern Society
1836–1848

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5. The Consolidation of Planters’ Power

8. Household Discord and Challenges
from Below
"The Mulattoes one sees in every family exactly resemble the white children - and
every lady tells you who is the father of all the Mulatto children in everybody's
household, but those in her own she seems to think drop from the sky or pretends
so to think."
- The Diary of Mary Boykin Chesnut

10. The Ties That Bind?:
Religion and Slavery

11. Native and African American
Resistance on the Frontier

13. Seminole Wars as Wars in
Defense of Slavery

14. Alliance Black and White from Gangs of New York

15. Free Blacks Threaten Planters’ Control

16. New Frontiers and New Challenges for
Southern Slavery

17. Southern Whites Move Westward and
Demand Rights

18. Ravages of the Internal Slave Trade

23. The Proslavery Movement's Ideological
Defense of Slavery

25. Resistance to Industrialization and the
Limits of Economic Diversification

26. Extending the Empire for Slavery

27. The Lure of New Territories to the South
and West

29. The War with Mexico

30. Nation Divided Over War with Mexico

31. Nation Divided Over War with Mexico

33. Manifest Destiny and the Conflict over Slavery in
the New Territories

35. Territorial Expansion and
Political Turmoil