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

Race and Politics offers an analysis of the controversies that followed the repeal of the Missouri Compromise. The question of whether the still unsettled Kansas Territory should be slave or free divided the nation into hostile and ultimately irreconcilable camps, creating conditions that only civil war could resolve. The author 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.

About the author

James A. Rawley (1916-2005). He is the author of numerous books, including Turning Points of the Civil War (Nebraska 1989), The Politics of Union: Northern Politics during the Civil War (Nebraska 1974), Abraham Lincoln and a Nation Worth Fighting For (Nebraska 2003), and Secession: The Disruption of the American Republic, 1844-1861.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: James a Rawley, James A. Rawley
• Publisher: Nebraska
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.1979
• EAN: 9780803289017
• ISBN: 978-0-8032-8901-7
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 413 g
• Series: Civil War; Civil War
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous