Race to the Frontier

Race to the Frontier: ‘White Flight’ and Westward Expansion (2005)

Competition from slaveholding plantations repeatedly forced independent Southern farmers to move inland in search of cheaper land. Their resentment toward slave labor was expressed by a desire to create all-white territories west of the Mississippi before the Civil War.

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