The Democratic Party and the Sectional Crisis
by
Michael Todd Landis
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
In the decade before the Civil War, Northern Democrats, although they ostensibly represented antislavery and free-state constituencies, made possible the passage of such proslavery legislation as the Compromise of 1850 and Fugitive Slave Law of the same year, the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, and the...