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Article: Slavery and the American West: The Eclipse of Manifest Destiny and the Coming of the Civil War.
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- March 22, 1998
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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 University of North Carolina Press, 1997 448 pp. Cloth, $ 59.95
Reviewed by William L. Barney, department of history, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A specialist in the social and political history of the nineteenth-century United States, Barney has taught American history at UNC-Chapel Hill since 1975. He is the author of Battleground for the Union: The Era of the Civil [Par and Reconstruction, 1848-1877 (1990).
No issue played a more direct role in the coming of the Civil War than the status of slavery in the federal territories. ...