Slavery and the American West
Subtitle: The Eclipse of Manifest Destiny
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: August 18, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 410
ISBN-13: 9780807847961
Subjects: American history: c 1800 to c 1900; Civil war; Slavery & emancipation; c 1800 to c 1900; United States - Civil War; Slavery; History; History - U.S.; History: American; USA; United States - 19th Century/Old West; History / United States / 19th Century; History / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877); History-United States - 19th Century/Old West; Social Science-Slavery; United states; sectionalization; 1840s; 1850s; territorial expansion; John Tyler's attempt to annex Texas in 1844; Kansas-Nebraska Act; United States - 19th Century
First sentence: "The question of the annexation of Texas," Ralph Waldo Emerson confided to his journal, "is one of those which look very differently to the centuries and to the years.