Irrepressible Conflict: The Cause of the American Civil War: And the Sad, Tragic, Story of it Resulting in Deaths of So Many

The Civil War resulted from the insistence of Southern “firebrands” that the 1820 restrictions on where slavery could be practiced in the Western territories of the USA be removed. And the dogged determination of some Northerners to restrict the brutal treatment of blacks and finally put slavery on the road to extinction. In the 1850’s big shoes dropped one after another in staccato fashion to dash such hopes. The final straws were the Dred Scott Decision in 1857 saying blacks weren’t even ...