Slavery and the American West : the eclipse of manifest destiny and the coming of the Civil War / Michael A. Morrison.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Morrison, Michael A., 1948-2017 (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Chapel Hill ; London : The University of North Carolina Press, [1997]
Series:	UNC Press law publications. Slavery in America and the world: history, culture & law.
Subjects:	1861-1865 Slavery > United States > Extension to the territories. Sectionalism (U.S.) HISTORY. Sectionalism (United States) Slavery > Extension to the territories Territorial expansion War > Causes Slavernij. Amerikaanse burgeroorlog. United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Causes. United States > Territorial expansion. United States History
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Table of Contents:

John Tyler's hobby: territorial expansion and Jacksonian politics
Milton's devil: slavery restriction and the revolutionary heritage, 1820-1846
Washington redux: the whig party and the politics of slavery, 1846-1848
Tower of Babel: social ideology and the crisis of territorial organization, 1849-1850
Of Pegasus and Bellerophon: popular sovereignty, Stephen A. Douglas, and the origins of the Kansas-Nebraska Act
A house dividing: the conspiracy thesis joined and defined
To the egress: humbug and the disruption of the democracy
The eclipse of manifest destiny and the disruption of the second party system.

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