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

✍ Scribed by Jeffrey Allen Zemler

• Publisher: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 223
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Subjects

Madison, James, -- 1751-1836 -- Political and social views. ; Sectionalism (United States) -- History -- 18th century. ; Sectionalism (United States) -- History -- 19th century. ; Southern States -- Politics and government -- 1775-1865. ; United States -- Politics and government -- 1783-1809. ; Northwest, Old -- History -- 1775-1865.