The F Street Mess: How Southern Senators Rewrote the Kansas-Nebraska Act

by Alice Elizabeth Malavasic

Book Overview

Pushing back against the idea that the Slave Power conspiracy was merely an ideological construction, Alice Elizabeth Malavasic argues that some southern politicians in the 1850s did indeed hold an inordinate amount of power in the antebellum Congress and used it to foster the interests of slavery. Malavasic focuses her argument on Senators David Rice Atchison of Missouri, Andrew Pickens Butler of South Carolina, and Robert M. T. Hunter and James...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469636476
• ISBN13: 9781469636474
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"