Slavery and the American West: The Eclipse of Manifest Destiny and the Coming of the Civil War

by Michael A. Morrison

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Tracing the sectionalization of American politics in the 1840s and 1850s, Michael Morrison offers a comprehensive study of how slavery and territorial expansion intersected as causes of the Civil War. Specifically, he argues that the common heritage of the American Revolution bound Americans together until disputes over the extension of slavery into the territories led northerners and southerners to increasingly divergent understandings of the Revolution's...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0807847968

ISBN13:9780807847961

Release Date:August 1999

Publisher:University of North Carolina Press

Length:416 Pages

Weight:1.34 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 6.2" x 9.3"

Related Subjects

19th Century Abolition Civil War Discrimination & Racism Education & Reference History Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Politics & Government Politics & Social Sciences Race Relations

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