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

by Michael A. Morrison

Book Overview

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: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.3"