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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 swept the nation to war.
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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 Southin fact, the entire countrywas ruled by a ruthless "Slave Power." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn 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 Southin fact, the entire countrywas ruled by a ruthless "Slave Power." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
egocentric sectionalism, blundering generation, needless war, slave power, irrepressible conflict, southern secessionists, slavery expansion, sectional party, concurrent majority, sectional crisis, sectional conflict Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, New York, South Carolina, New England, Abraham Lincoln, John Brown, New Mexico, Declaration of Independence, Dred Scott, Mississippi Valley Historical Review, New Orleans, Southern Revolutionary Nationalist Party, Supreme Court, Black Republicans, Congressional Globe, Economic Sectionalism, Old South, American Historical Review, American Union, House of Representatives, Jefferson Davis, Oxford University Press, Revolutionary America, Southern Editorials, The Rebellion Record New!
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- Southern Editorials on Secession by Dwight Dumond on 4 pages
- The Imperiled Union: Essays on the Background of the Civil War by Kenneth M. Stampp in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Lincoln: His Speeches and Writings by Roy Basler on page 136, and page 139
- Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln by A. Lincoln on page 136, and page 139
- The Peculiar Institution by Kenneth M. Stampp in Front Matter
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- The Great Tax Wars: Lincoln--Teddy Roosevelt--Wilson How the Income Tax Transformed America by Steven R. Weisman in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- We Are All Together Now: Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison and the Prophetic Tradition by William Rogers on page 46, page 84, and Back Matter
- Routledge Companion to the American Civil War (Routledge Companion to History) by Hugh Tulloch in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Great Tax Wars: Lincoln to Wilson--The Fierce Battles over Money and Power That Transformed the Nation by Steven R. Weisman in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Rich Man's War: Class, Caste, and Confederate Defeat in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley by David Williams in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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