Full name: Arguing about Slavery: The Great Battle in the United States Congress

Author: William Lee Miller Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Politics, Non Fiction, Biographies Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780394569222 0394569229

A blow-by-blow re-creation of the battle royal that raged in Congress in the 1830s, when a small band of representatives, led by President John Quincy Adams of Massachusetts, employed intricate stratagems to outwit the Southern (and Southern-sympathizing) sponsors of the successive "gag" rules that had long blocked debate on the subject of slavery. Similar books: President Lincoln by William Lee Miller Holy Warriors by James Brewer Stewart The Amistad Rebellion by Marcus Rediker Mutiny on the Amistad by Howard Jones The Peculiar Institution by Kenneth M. Stampp The War Before the War by Andrew Delbanco America in 1857 by Kenneth M. Stampp War, Terrible War by Joy Hakim Inhuman Bondage by David Brion Davis The Slave Community by John W. Blassingame Many Thousands Gone by Ira Berlin Gabriel's Rebellion by Douglas R. Egerton The Empire Of Necessity by Greg Grandin Secessionists at Bay, 1776-1854 by William W. Freehling Generations of Captivity by Ira Berlin Mr. Jefferson's Lost Cause by Roger G. Kennedy No Ordinary Time by Doris Kearns Goodwin Grant by Ron Chernow The Prime Ministers by Yehuda Avner East West Street by Philippe Sands