Slavery and the American West: The Eclipse of Manifest Destiny and the Coming of the Civil WarTracing 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 th |
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Índice
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| 13 | |
| 39 | |
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Tower of Babel Social Ideology and the Crisis of Territorial Organization 18491850 | 96 |
Of Pegasus and Bellerophon Popular Sovereignty Stephen A Douglas and the Origins of the KansasNebraska Act | 126 |
A House Dividing The Conspiracy Thesis Joined and Defined | 157 |
To the Egress Humbug and the Disruption of the Democracy | 188 |
The Eclipse of Manifest Destiny and the Disruption of the Second Party System | 219 |
We Stand Where Our Fathers Stood | 252 |
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Slavery and the American West: The Eclipse of Manifest Destiny Michael A. Morrison Pré-visualização limitada - 2000 |
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Palavras e frases frequentes
1st sess 2d sess 31st Cong 36th Cong American annexation antislavery Appendix asserted Boston Breckinridge Buchanan Buren Calhoun citizens claimed Clay Clement Claiborne Clay Cobb compromise Congressional Globe Constitution convention Daily Davis declared Democracy Democratic Party disunion Douglas Douglas's Dred Scott editor election equality expansion Family Papers federal Folder free-soilers free-state freedom Henry Historical Society Howell Cobb Illinois institutions Jacksonian James James Buchanan Journal Kansas Kansas-Nebraska Act Lecompton liberty Library of Congress Lincoln Mexican cession Mexico Missouri Nebraska bill North Carolina northern Democrats Ohio Papers John party members party's Philadelphia political Polk popular sovereignty president principles Revolution Robert Robert Toombs secession sectional Senate slave slave-state slaveholders slavery slavery extension South southern rights southern Whigs Speech Stephens Taylor territorial issue Texas Thomas tion Toombs Union Unionists United vols vote Washington William William Cabell Rives Wilmot Proviso York
Passagens conhecidas
Página 39 - The other Shape — If shape it might be called that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb; Or substance might be called that shadow seemed, For each seemed either — black it stood as Night, Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful dart: what seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on.
Página 252 - ... the preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the republican model of government, are justly considered as deeply, perhaps as finally staked, on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.
Página 41 - Provided, That as an express and fundamental condition to, the acquisition of any territory from the Republic of Mexico by the United States, by virtue of any treaty which may be negotiated between them, and to the use by the Executive of the moneys herein appropriated, neither Slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist in any part of said territory, except for crime, whereof the party shall first be duly convicted.
Página 252 - What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Página 271 - ... higher and more stubborn spirit, attached to liberty, than those to the northward. Such were all the ancient commonwealths; such -were our Gothic ancestors; such in our days were the Poles ; and such will be all masters of slaves, who are not slaves themselves. In such a people, the haughtiness of domination combines with the spirit of freedom, fortifies it, and renders it invincible.
Página 151 - We arraign this bill as a gross violation of a sacred pledge ; as a criminal betrayal of precious rights ; as part and parcel of an atrocious plot to exclude from a vast unoccupied region emigrants from the Old World and free laborers from our own states, and convert it into a dreary region of despotism, inhabited by masters and slaves.
Página 5 - Extend the sphere and you take in a greater variety of parties and interests; you make it less probable that a majority of the whole will have a common motive to invade the rights of other citizens; or if such a common motive exists, it will be more difficult for all who feel it to discover their own strength and to act in unison with each other.
Página 281 - Eric Foner, Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party before the Civil War (New York: Oxford University Press, 1970).
Página 25 - The voluntary outpouring of the public feeling, made to-day, from the North to the South, and from the East to the West, proves this sentiment to be both just and natural.
Página 39 - We owe it to our ancestors to preserve entire those rights which they have delivered to our care. We owe it to our posterity not to suffer their dearest inheritance to be destroyed.
Referências a este livro
Bleeding Kansas: Contested Liberty in the Civil War Era Nicole Etcheson Visualização de excertos - 2004 |
Firebrand of Liberty: The Story of Two Black Regiments That Changed the ... Stephen V. Ash Pré-visualização limitada - 2008 |
Informação bibliográfica
| Título | Slavery and the American West: The Eclipse of Manifest Destiny and the Coming of the Civil War |
| Autor | Michael A. Morrison |
| Edição | ilustrada, reimpressão |
| Editora | Univ of North Carolina Press, 1999 |
| ISBN | 0807847968, 9780807847961 |
| Número de páginas | 396 páginas |
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