Wolf by the ears : the Missouri crisis, 1819-1821 /
From the early days of the republic, American leaders knew that an unpredictable time bomb, the question of slavery, lay at the heart of national politics. An implicit understanding between North and South helped to keep the issue at bay. Northern states, where slavery had been set on course for ext...
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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: |
Van Atta, John Robert
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Format: | Book
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Language: | English |
Published: |
Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2015.
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Series: | Witness to history (Baltimore, Md.)
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Subjects: |
HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
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