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The Problem of Emancipation: The Caribbean Roots of the American Civil War / Edward Bartlett Rugemer
Review Date:
30 Apr 2009On the occasion of his famous address commemorating the abolition of slavery in the British West Indies, delivered in Concord on August 1, 1844, Ralph Waldo Emerson highlighted America’s avoidance of slavery’s implications.
Review Date:
22 Jan 2015Most canonical interpretations of the American Civil War revolve around some facet of the great national contest over the status and future of slavery in the western territories.