7/4/2023 0 Comments Brooks captives and cousinsWahlstrom also considers the experiences of African Americans and non-slaveholding whites. Although Rolle largely ignores the northern Mexican borderlands, Wahlstrom also emphasizes colonization in Coahuila, arguing that border states contributed to a “ hemispheric south” where planters and railroad promoters envisioned business and trade networks across the Mexican borderlands and into Latin America during the last third of the nineteenth century (xxvii). Wahlstrom seeks to revise Rolle’s contention that the southern exodus was a “failure” through revealing “the scope of the vision behind it” (xv). Wahlstrom revises earlier histories, engaging Andrew Rolle’s The Lost Cause: The Confederate Exodus to Mexico (1965) that describes Confederate flight as “an attempt to snatch some sort of victory out of defeat” 2 and as an expression of delusional efforts to preserve Dixie in the Mexican highlands. The Lost Cause: The Confederate Exodus to Mexico, by Andrew Rolle
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