The Missouri Compromise and Its Aftermath

Slavery & the Meaning of America

• Author(s): Robert Pierce Forbes,
• Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
• Pages: 369
• ISBN_10: 0807831050
  ISBN_13: 9780807831052
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / United States / 19th Century , Political Science / General , Political Science / History & Theory , Social Science / Slavery ,

Description:... Robert Pierce Forbes goes behind the scenes of the crucial Missouri Compromise, the most important sectional crisis before the Civil War, to reveal the high-level deal-making, diplomacy, and deception that defused the crisis, including the central, unexpe