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Article: Slavery and the American West: The Eclipse of Manifest Destiny and the Coming of the Civil War.(Review)
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- The Historian
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- January 1, 1999
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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: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. Pp. xii, 396. $49.95.)
What makes people willing to die for a cause? That is a primary question behind our fascination with the Civil War, which was so ferocious and horrible that today's Americans cannot imagine engaging in such a struggle. The Civil War destroyed 1.5 billion dollars in property and forced at least 250,000 Southern women and children from their homes.(1) It took 620,000 lives, leaving the dead so thick on battlefields that soldiers shrank from the realization that they ...