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Was the Civil War inevitable? What really caused it? Drawing on original sources--from Jefferson Davis to Frederick Douglass--and interpretive essays by today's most influential historians, this collection of essays gives a vivid sense of the political, economic, and cultural currents that... read more

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DURING THE YEARS of bitter sectional conflict that preceded the Civil War, Northern abolitionists, editors, and Republican politicians repeatedly charged that the South—in fact, the entire country—was ruled by a ruthless "Slave Power."

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Touchstone
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1992
ISBN: 0671751557
Page Count: 256

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