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

Description

Author: Morrison, Michael A. (1948-2017)

Publisher: University of North Carolina Press

Pub Date: 1999 (Second printing)

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair.  Binding tight.  No tears, bends or folds.  Markings throughout.  Light edge and corner wear.

Notes: It wasn’t just the issue of slavery itself that brought on the Civil War.  It was as much the issue of the expansion of slavery into the western territories and new states (Kansas, Missouri, California, Oregon).  Cotton is king, new territory for farming, more land for cotton, slaves for cotton, cotton is king.