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This account of the failed Compromise of 1850 a decade before the Civil War "has all the suspense of a novel . . . incisive and provocative" (The Journal of American History).
In 1850, America was expanding rapidly westward as countless citizens went in search of land, opportunityand, thanks to the gold rush in California, fortune. With settlements growing into towns and towns growing into cities, there was an urgent need for state and local government.
But the simmering tension over slavery that existed between North and South would boil over as the effort to draw boundaries and establish civil administration proceeded. The slave states were concerned about the delicate balance of power tipping in the North's favor, while the free states were wary about an expansion of slavery. The debate in the United States Senate lasted for months, and the nation waited anxiously for a resolution. This book tells the story of these events and analyzes their political complexitiesand how they served as a dramatic prologue to the civil war that would erupt a decade later.
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