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Article: South by Southwest: Planter Emigration and Identity in the Slave South.(Book Review)
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- March 22, 2004
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South by Southwest: Planter Emigration and Identity in the Slave South. By James David Miller. (Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2002. Pp. xi, 200. $32.50.)
A distinct feature of antebellum America was the relentless movement of its people westward. In South by Southwest, James David Miller explores a fragment of that movement. Miller's primary concern lies with the thought of slaveholders. The parameters of his study are emigration from Georgia and South Carolina to the lands from Alabama to Texas. Miller's study encompasses various motivations--economic, nationalistic, and political--driving planter emigration. Intellectual and cultural ...