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| LC control number |
2002074852 |
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| Local cataloguing issues note |
BIB MATCHES WORLDCAT |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
0195157354 |
| Qualifying information |
acid-free paper |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780195157352 |
| Qualifying information |
acid-free paper |
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(ATU)b10918176 |
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(DLC) 2002074852 |
| 035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER |
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| System control number |
(OCoLC)50064690 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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DLC |
| Language of cataloging |
eng |
| Description conventions |
rda |
| Modifying agency |
ATU |
| 050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
E417 |
| Item number |
.D87 2003 |
| 082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
973.61092 |
| Edition number |
21 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Dusinberre, William, |
| Dates associated with a name |
1930- |
| Relator term |
author. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
417932 |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Slavemaster president : |
| Remainder of title |
the double career of James Polk / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. |
William Dusinberre. |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE |
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| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture |
New York : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer |
Oxford University Press, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice |
2003. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
xiv, 258 pages : |
| Other physical details |
illustrations, map ; |
| Dimensions |
25 cm |
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text |
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txt |
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rdacontent |
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unmediated |
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n |
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rdamedia |
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volume |
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nc |
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rdacarrier |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc. note |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-252) and index. |
| 520 1# - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
"James Polk was president of the United States from 1845 to 1849, a time when slavery began to dominate American politics. Polk's presidency coincided with the eruption of the territorial slavery issue, which within a few years would lead to the catastrophe of the Civil War." "Polk himself owned substantial cotton plantations - in Tennessee and later in Mississippi - and some fifty slaves. Unlike many antebellum planters who portrayed their involvement with slavery as a historical burden bestowed onto them by their ancestors, Polk entered the slave business of his own volition, for reasons principally of financial self-interest. Drawing on previously unexplored records, Slavemaster President recreates the world of Polk's Mississippi plantation and the personal histories of his slaves, in what is arguably the most careful and vivid account to date of how slavery functioned on a single cotton plantation. Life at the Polk estate was brutal and often short. Fewer than one in two slave children lived to the age of fifteen, a child mortality rate even higher than that on the average plantation. A steady stream of slaves temporarily fled the plantation throughout Polk's tenure as absentee slavemaster. Yet Polk was in some respects an enlightened owner, instituting an unusual incentive plan for his slaves and granting extensive privileges to his most favored slave." "Startlingly, Dusinberre shows how Polk sought to hide from public knowledge the fact that, while he was president, he was secretly buying as many slaves as his plantation revenues permitted. Shortly before his sudden death from cholera, the president quietly drafted a new will, in which he expressed the hope that his slaves might be freed - but only after he and his wife were both dead. The very next day, he authorized the purchase, in strictest secrecy, of six more very young slaves." "By contrast with Senator John C. Calhoun, President Polk has been seen as a moderate Southern Democratic leader. But Dusinberre suggests that the president's political stance toward slavery - influenced as it was by his deep personal involvement in the plantation system - may actually have helped precipitate the Civil War that Polk sought to avoid."--BOOK JACKET. |
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Machine converted from AACR2 source record. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Polk, James K. |
| Fuller form of name |
(James Knox), |
| Dates associated with a name |
1795-1849 |
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417933 |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Polk, James K. |
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(James Knox), |
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1795-1849 |
| General subdivision |
Views on slavery. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Polk, James K. |
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(James Knox), |
| Dates associated with a name |
1795-1849 |
| General subdivision |
Relations with slaves. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Presidents |
| Geographic subdivision |
United States |
| Form subdivision |
Biography |
| 9 (RLIN) |
345303 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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Plantation owners |
| Geographic subdivision |
Tennessee |
| Form subdivision |
Biography |
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647542 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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Plantation owners |
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Mississippi |
| Form subdivision |
Biography |
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647551 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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Slavery |
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Tennessee |
| General subdivision |
History |
| Chronological subdivision |
19th century. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Slavery |
| Geographic subdivision |
Mississippi |
| General subdivision |
History |
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19th century. |
| 856 41 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS |
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| Materials specified |
Table of contents |
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