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Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. His treatment of the slavery issue is very fair, and must be read to understand the point of view of those Southerners who did not feel they could end the institution immediately, but deplored the institution itself.Įxtensively footnoted, and annotated, there is no better source for understanding the entire country in the 1850's.LeatherBound. He describes extensively the various reform movements, women's rights, social reform and, of course, abolitionism, which spread throughout the country. In this volume, Nevins describes the tumultuous events of the 1850's, and the state of American culture which made the eventual collision inevitable. Absolutely essential for students of the Civil War, the late historian Nevins's National Book Award-winning masterwork, published over the years 1947-1971, is here presented complete and unabridged and recently edited to repair several typos
