The Political Crisis of the 1850s
- ISBN-10
- 0471408417
- ISBN-13
- 9780471408413
- Category
- Compromise of 1850
- Pages
- 330
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1978
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons
- Author
- Michael Fitzgibbon Holt
Description
Historians like Eugene Genovese and Eric Foner have established beyond cavil the reality and gravity of ideological , economic , and political conflict between the free labor society of the North and the slave - based plantation society ...
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