Author : Robert Pierce Forbes
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 714 pages
File Size : 13,89 MB
Release : 2009-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1458721655
Book Description
As a key to understanding the meaning of slavery in America, the Missouri controversy of 181921 is probably our most valuable text. The heat of sectional rhetoric during the Missouri debates reached a level never exceeded, and rarely matched, until the secession crisis of 1860. Moreover, nearly all the arguments for and against slavery in Americ...