![]() ![]() ![]() Set in the period between 17, the book examines the role of Virginian slavery in the War of 1812 and the resulting fears of Virginia slaveholders that led to heightened tensions afterwards. Yet there is a period in the middle of these two wars that is often overlooked, and this is precisely where Alan Taylor situates his new Pulitzer Prize-winning book, The Internal Enemy. Discussions of slavery’s contradictions with the freedoms declared during the American Revolution and the founding fathers’ musings on the subject interest historians of the colonial and revolutionary periods, while the later, more divisive nature of slavery preoccupies Civil War and nineteenth-century historians. Since the founding of the first British colonies, slavery has been at the core of US history. ![]() Reviewed by Katie Thompson (West Virginia University) The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832. ![]()
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