Slavemaster President: The Double Career of James Polk by William Dusinberre
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Overview: 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 50 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 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.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Biographies & Memoirs
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