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- Title
"A General Concurrence in the Propriety of the Repeal": Male Friendship, Party, and Section in the Kansas-Nebraska Bill.
- Authors
Balcerski, Thomas J.
- Abstract
The article discusses the role male friendship within the U.S. Democratic Party played in the repeal of the Missouri Compromise of 1850 and the development of the slavery law the Kansas-Nebraska Act during the early-to-mid 1850s, including the sectionalism involved. An overview of the friendship between the U.S. President Franklin Pierce and the Democratic Party leader Jefferson Davis is provided. The political alliance between U.S. Senators Stephen A. Douglas and David Atchison is discussed.
- Subjects
UNITED States; SLAVERY laws; MALE friendship; MISSOURI compromise; UNITED States politics &; government, 1853-1857; DAVIS, Jefferson, 1808-1889; DOUGLAS, Stephen A. (Stephen Arnold), 1813-1861; ATCHINSON, David; REPEAL of legislation; UNITED States history
- Publication
Civil War History, 2019, Vol 65, Issue 2, p157
- ISSN
0009-8078
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/cwh.2019.0016