Slavery and the American West: The Eclipse of Manifest Destiny and the Coming of the Civil War by Michael A. Morrison

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

Michael A. Morrison

396 pages • first pub 1997 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
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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 herita...

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