... centuries. It then looks at how the individual lives and family stories of enslaved Northeasterners are crucial to understanding how slaveholding and racial power underwrote the social, cultural, and political ties of regional elites, despite cultural disparities, warfare, and political divisions. Anglo...

... then enacted policies that both preferred the strictly domestic policy alternative. Moreover, economic expansion is one of the primary interests that allowed indirect rule to flourish in the CCA. The chapter then discusses the forms of support provided by the United States to the regional elites...

... the subsequent forms of resistance in the region. Though regional elites were powerful, they were not powerful enough to impose their policy preferences on the mass of society. Thus, the United States changed the politics and possibilities within its client states through indirect rule. However, the United...