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For proslavery market leaders like John C. Calhoun and Jefferson Davis, the 19th-century world was torn between two hostile pushes: a increasing movement against bondage and an Atlantic plantation system that was much larger and more successful than ever before. On this great have difficulty, Southern statesmen saw america as slavery's most powerful champion. Overcoming traditional qualms in regards to a strong central federal government, slaveholding market leaders harnessed the energy of the state of hawaii to guard slavery abroad. Through the antebellum years, they functioned energetically to modernize the US military services while steering North american diplomacy to protect slavery in Brazil, Cuba, and the Republic of Tx. As Matthew Karp shows, these market leaders were nationalists, not separatists. Their "vast Southern empire" was not an independent South but the whole United States, and only the election of Abraham Lincoln broke their grip on national vitality. Fortified by years at the helm folks overseas affairs, slave-holding elites created their own Confederacy - not only as a needy effort to preserve their property but as a positive bid to form the continuing future of the Atlantic world.
