Slavery and the American West : the eclipse of manifest destiny and the coming of the Civil War /
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| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
[1997]
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| Series: | UNC Press law publications.
Slavery in America and the world: history, culture & law. |
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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.