The Missouri Compromise and its aftermath : slavery & the meaning of America
Robert Pierce Forbes (Author)
Robert Pierce Forbes goes behind the scenes of the crucial Missouri Compromise, the most important sectional crisis before the Civil War, to reveal the high-level deal-making, diplomacy, and deception that defused the crisis, including the central, unexpected role of President James Monroe. Although Missouri was allowed to join the union with slavery, Forbes observes, the compromise in fact closed off nearly all remaining federal territory to slavery. Forbes's analysis reveals a surprising national consensus against slavery a generation before the Civil War, which was fractured by the controve
eBook, English, 2007
The University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 2007
History
1 online resource (369 pages) : map
9780807877586, 9781469606132, 0807877581, 1469606135
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Monroe takes charge
Missouri
Compromise
Silence
Discord
Beneficence
Democracy
Force
Kansas
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010