Race and Politics: Bleeding Kansas and the Coming of the Civil War

by JamesA.Rawley (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  1979

  $29.89

  Offers an analysis of the controversies that followed the repeal of the Missouri Compromise. This book demonstrates, however, that the fundamental issue was not slavery as such but race: whether the country, its egalitarian slogans notwithstanding, could tolerate the expansion of African Americans, slave or free.