Sectional Crisis

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Hovenden, Thomas. (American (born Ireland), Dunmanway 1840–1895 Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania). “The Last Moments of John Brown.” Oil on canvas, 1882–84.
(The Metropolitan Museum of Art)
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Readings:
American Yawp, chap. 13, “The Sectional Crisis

American Yawp Reader, chap. 13, “The Sectional Crisis Reader” (click through to five Primary Source documents)


Secondary Source: Adam Rothman, “Slavery and National Expansion in the United States,” OAH Magazine of History 23, 2 (April 2009): 23–29.

 

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