The slave power : the free North and southern domination, 1780-1860
Leonard L. Richards (Author)
Richards, "elucidates just how the southern Democratic slaveholders, with the help of some northerners, assumed, protected, and eventually lost a dominance that extended from the White House to the Speaker's chair to the Supreme Court. [He] reveals in a direct and compelling way the importance of slavery in the structure of national politics from the earliest moments of the federal Union through the emergence of the Republican Party."--Cover
Print Book, English, ©2000
Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge, ©2000