[PDF.51yf] The California Gold Rush and the Coming of the Civil War (Vintage Civil War Library)

The California Gold Rush and the Coming of the Civil War (Vintage Civil War Library)

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 | #698729 in Books |  2008-02-12 |  2008-02-12 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.00 x.60 x5.20l,.64 | File type: PDF | 304 pages

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||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Essential Reading|By Flip|Should be required reading in any serious study of US history. Fabulous in exposing the true behavior and temperament of our countrymen just before and including the start of our Civil War. The idea of forcibly adding Cuba as a slave state seems preposterous if it wasn't true. The history books usually referenced in our educational system rarely depi|From Publishers Weekly|Starred . Richards, a leading historian of 19th-century America (The Life and Times of Congressman John Quincy Adams), superbly illuminates gold rush California as a land in contention between national pro- and anti-slavery

Award-winning historian Leonard L. Richards gives us an authoritative and revealing portrait of an overlooked harbinger of the terrible battle that was to come.

 

When gold was discovered at Sutter's Mill in 1848, Americans of all stripes saw the potential for both wealth and power. Among the more calculating were Southern slave owners. By making California a slave state, they could increase the value of their slaves—by 50 percent at least,...

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