The Slave Power - The Free North and Southern Domination, 1780-1860 - Leonard L. Richards - Paperback Bog - Louisiana State University Press - 2000 -
Brand: Louisiana State University Press
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From the signing of the Constitution to the eve of the Civil War there persisted the belief that slaveholding southerners held the reins of the American national government and used their power to ensure the extension of slavery. Later termed the Slave Power theory, this idea was no mere figment of a lunatic fringe’s imagination.
