Prelude to Civil War: The Nullification Controversy in South Carolina, 1816-1836
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780195076813 (0195076818)
ASIN: 195076818
Publish date: June 4th 1992
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pages no: 416
Edition language: English
Probably the best study of the Nullification Crisis of 1832.In November 1832, South Carolina was already making hints it would withdraw from the Union. The ostensible issue was tariffs (always money, always money,) but Freehling shows the importance of the slave issue in the crisis. Andrew Jackson ...