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The F Street Mess : how Southern senators rewrote the Kansas-Nebraska Act /

Malavasic argues that some Southern politicians in the 1850s did indeed hold an inordinate amount of power in the antebellum Congress and used it to foster the interests of slavery. This book focuses her argument on Senators David Rice Atchison of Missouri, Andrew Pickens Butler of South Carolina a...

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Main Author:	Malavasic, Alice Elizabeth (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2017]
Series:	Civil War America (Series)
Subjects:	United States. > Kansas-Nebraska Act. United States. > Congress > History > 19th century. Atchison, David Rice, > 1807-1886. Butler, A. P. > (Andrew Pickens), > 1796-1857. Hunter, R. M. T. > (Robert Mercer Taliaferro), > 1809-1887. Mason, J. M. > (James Murray), > 1798-1871. Slavery > United States > Extension to the territories. Slavery > Political aspects > United States > History > 19th century. Oligarchy > United States.

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