The Southern Exodus to Mexico

Book Review| August 01 2018 The Southern Exodus to Mexico: Migration across the Borderlands after the American Civil War The Southern Exodus to Mexico: Migration across the Borderlands after the American Civil War. By Wahlstrom, Todd W.. Borderlands and Transcultural Studies. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2015. Map. Figures. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xxvii, 189 pp. Cloth, $55.00. Raúl A. Ramos Raúl A. Ramos University of Houston Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Hispanic American Historical Review (2018) 98 (3): 541–542. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-6933831 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Email Permissions Search Site Citation Raúl A. Ramos; The Southern Exodus to Mexico: Migration across the Borderlands after the American Civil War. Hispanic American Historical Review 1 August 2018; 98 (3): 541–542. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-6933831 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter Books & JournalsAll JournalsHispanic American Historical Review Search Advanced Search As the American Civil War turned against the Confederacy, many in the Confederate leadership and other Southerners faced the question of how to respond to the defeat. One group proposed forgoing the indignity and possible oppression of reunion by migrating south across the border, to various points in Latin America and the Caribbean. In The Southern Exodus to Mexico, Todd W. Wahlstrom reconstructs the ideology and objectives of those who chose to immigrate to Mexico. Wahlstrom situates their actions within the literature in Mexican, borderlands, and American West history. By applying their actions to these frames, he expands the meaning of their actions beyond the confines of the crisis facing the American South at the end of the war. Wahlstrom can then suggest that the planners, promoters, and immigrants in the resettlement movement were forward-looking in their quest to make new... Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press2018 Issue Section: Eighteenth–Nineteenth Centuries You do not currently have access to this content

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