Slavery and the American West the eclipse of manifest destiny and the coming of the Civil War /

Morrison, Michael A., 1948-

Slavery and the American West the eclipse of manifest destiny and the coming of the Civil War / [electronic resource] : Michael A. Morrison. - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c1997. - xii, 396 p.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 339-388) and index.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.






Slavery--Extension to the territories.--United States
Sectionalism (United States)


United States--History--Causes.--Civil War, 1861-1865
United States--Territorial expansion.


Electronic books.

E415.7 / .M88 1997