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Title:

Congress and the crisis of the 1850s / edited by Paul Finkelman and Donald R. Kennon.

Publisher:

Published for the United States Capitol Historical Society by Ohio University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2012

Description:

vi, 231 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.

Subject:

United States--Politics and government--1815-1861.
United States.--Congress--History--19th century.
Slavery--United States--Extension to the territories.
Slavery--History--United States--History--19th century.
Slavery--United States--Legal status of slaves in free states.
Fugitive slaves--Legal status, laws, etc.--United States.
Slavery--History--United States--History--19th century.
Sectionalism (United States)--History--19th century.

Other Authors:

Finkelman, Paul, 1949-
Kennon, Donald R., 1948-
United States Capitol Historical Society.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction : a disastrous decade / Paul Finkelman -- Politics, patronage, and public policy : the Compromise of 1850 / Michael F. Holt -- The appeasement of 1850 / Paul Finkleman -- Beyond the balance rule : Congress, statehood, and slavery, 1850-1859 / Matthew Glassman -- Manifest destiny's hangover : Congress confronts territorial expansion and martial masculinity in the 1850s / Amy S. Greenberg -- "When the victims of oppression stand up manfully for themselves" : the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 and the role of African Americans in obstructing its enforcement / Spencer R. Crew -- "Agitation is as necessary as tranquility is dangerous" : Kinsley S. Bingham becomes a Republican / Martin J. Hershock -- Dred, panic, war : how a slave case triggered financial crisis and civil disunion / Jenny Wahl -- "Hit him again" : the caning of Charles Sumner / Brooks D. Simpson.

Series:

Perspectives on the history of Congress, 1801-1877

ISBN:

0821443992 (electronic)
9780821443996 (electronic)
0821419773 (hc : alk. paper)
9780821419779 (hc : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)724662724

LCCN:

2011036823

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)