King Cotton, Slavery, Annexation

And Manifest Destiny. Week 12 content for my US History 1 course. Students are also reading and annotating sixteen primary source passages, from an excerpt out of Dana’s Two Years Before the Mast describing California in 1840 to never-before-seen family letters of a young Yankee man visiting the South in 1850. Check them out! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit danallosso.substack.com/subscribe