Prologue To Conflict

The crisis facing the United States in 1850 was a dramatic prologue to the conflict that came a decade later. The rapid opening of western lands demanded the speedy establishment of local civil administration for these vast regions. Outraged partisans, however, cried of coercion: Southerners saw a threat to the precarious sectional balance, and Northerners feared an extension of slavery. In this definitive study, Holman Hamilton analyzes the complex events of the anxious months from December, 1849, when the Senate debates began, until September, 1850, when Congress passed the measures.

Prologue to Conflict: The Crisis and Compromise of 1850

History

Hamilton, Holman

Americas

W.W.Norton&Company

Traces the lives and the political influences and careers of three of Kentucky's most famous sons, reflecting on the unique character of Kentucky as both a western and southern state

Three Kentucky Presidents: Lincoln, Taylor, Davis (Kentucky Bicentennial Bookshelf)

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Univ Pr of Kentucky

University of Kentucky Press

The three Kentucky presidents―Abraham Lincoln, Zachary Taylor, and Jefferson Davis―were profoundly shaped by their experiences in Kentucky, poised as it was on the border between the North and the South, the East and the Western Frontier. Holman Hamilton asserts that these leaders were personally and politically influenced by their connections to the state. The contrasting traits of western frontiersman and southern aristocrat illuminate Kentucky's heritage and affected Taylor, Lincoln, and Davis, presidents during one of America's most troubled eras. Frontier values influenced Lincoln's and Taylor's views on the major issues of their time: extension of slavery, which they opposed, and preservation of the Union, which they supported. Davis's career reflects Southern values, leading him to favor slavery's extension and the Confederacy.

The Three Kentucky Presidents: Lincoln, Taylor, Davis

University Press of Kentucky

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