Building a House Divided: Slavery, Westward Expansion, and the Roots of the Civil War Hyslop Stephen G.
By the time Abraham Lincoln asserted in 1858 that the nation could not "endure permanently half slave and half free," the rift that would split the country in civil war was well defined. The origins…
Specifikacia Building a House Divided: Slavery, Westward Expansion, and the Roots of the Civil War Hyslop Stephen G.
By the time Abraham Lincoln asserted in 1858 that the nation could not "endure permanently half slave and half free," the rift that would split the country in civil war was well defined. The origins and evolution of the coming conflict between North and South can in fact be traced back to the early years of the American Republic, as Stephen G. Hyslop demonstrates in Building a House Divided, an exploration of how the incipient fissure between the Union's initial slave states and free states--or those where slaves were gradually being emancipated--lengthened and deepened as the nation advanced westward.Hyslop focuses on four prominent slaveholding expansionists who were intent on preserving the Union but nonetheless helped build what Lincoln called a house divided: Presidents Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, and James K. Polk and Senator Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois, who
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