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Slavery and the American West: The Eclipse of Manifest Destiny and the Coming of the Civil War
Academic journal article from The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 105, No. 4
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Slavery and the American West: The Eclipse of Manifest Destiny and the Coming of the Civil War. By MICHAEL A. MORRISON. Chapel Hill and London: University of Not Cera Press, 1997. m 396 pp. $49.95.
THIS is an ambitious book that aims through the study of the debate over slavery in the territories to put forth a general interpretation of the origin of the Civil War. "The war was not produced by the clash of different political cultures," Michael A. Morrison believes. "Northerners and southerners shared a common-not disparate-revolutionary ideology and acted in ways that were intelligible to their constituencies and each other" (p. 9).
As Morrison indicates in his …
