The Slave Power

Leonard L. Richards

Louisiana State University Press, 2000

51,50 €On orderDelivery: 2-3 weeks

From the signing of the Constitution to the eve of the Civil War there persisted the belief that slaveholding southerners held the reins of the American national government and used their power to ensure the extension of slavery. Later termed the Slave Power theory, this idea was no mere figment of a lunatic fringe’s imagination.

ISBN-13
9780807126004
ISBN-10
0807126004
Publisher
Louisiana State University Press
Year
2000
Publication date
2000-08-01
Pages
208
Dimensions
230x153x13
Weight
331