Slavemaster President: The Double Career of James Polk
New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. First edition. Hardcover. Fine in fine unpriced dust jacket. First edition. Hardcover. 258 pp (with epilogue, appendix, bibliography, and index). A historical review of President Polk's active and secretive involvement in the cotton plantation industry, personally buying and selling some 50 slaves who labored on an estate with a particularly high child mortality rate. The author describes how the plantation industry worked, and sheds light on activity President Polk sought to hide from public knowledge. Fine / fine. Item #E27961
ISBN: 0195157354
Price: $16.99
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