Grossman, Herschel I. (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
resulted in the secession of eleven Southern states from the Union and the
ensuing Civil War proximately concerned the … with Lincoln’s assertion that slavery ‘was, somehow, the cause of the [Civil]
war’.”
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This understanding largely shielded … 47) puts it, “On the eve of the Civil War, American slaveholders
were coming off a decade and a half of exuberant growth …