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Race and Politics: Bleeding Kansas and the Coming of the Civil War

Race and Politics: Bleeding Kansas and the Coming of the Civil War

Rawley, James a.

Paperback

Series: Civil War

Civil War Period (1850-1877)

ISBN10: 0803289014
ISBN13: 9780803289017
Publisher: Univ Of Nebraska Pr
Published: Sep 1 1979
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.91
Height: 0.73 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Race and Politics offers an analysis of the controversies that followed the repeal of the Missouri Compromise. The question of whether the still unsettled Kansas Territory should be slave or free divided the nation into hostile and ultimately irreconcilable camps, creating conditions that only civil war could resolve. The author demonstrates, however, that the fundamental issue was not slavery as such but race: whether the country, its egalitarian slogans notwithstanding, could tolerate the expansion of African Americans, slave or free.

Rawley in his introduction, a semi-apologia, questions the need for another book on the Civil War. He answers his own question, giving two reasons: first, to reveal how the Kansas upheaval became a main political preoccupation of the country before the war; second, to emphasize how deeply prejudice pervaded the entire populace, both Northern and Southern. In filling in the structure of these two justifications, Rawley achieves his goal in an admirable way.--Gene M. Gressley, Library Journal.

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