How Southern Senators Rewrote the Kansas-Nebraska Act
by
Alice Elizabeth Malavasic
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
Pushing back against the idea that the Slave Power conspiracy was merely an ideological construction, Alice Elizabeth Malavasic argues that some southern politicians in the 1850s did indeed hold an inordinate amount of power in the antebellum Congress and used it to foster the interests of slavery....