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Index
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
List Of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Prologue: The Nine-Month Debate and the Crisis of 1850
I. The Great Distraction: Slavery in the Territories
1. The Slavery Expansion Issue: Denied and Affirmed
2. Consensus and Conflict: Sectional Unity, National Division
II. Contested Territory: State Equality and the Nature of the Union
3. State Equality, the Transactional Union, and the Constitution
4. State Equality, the Perpetual Union, and the People
III. Sections in Conflict: The Voices of 1850
5. Conflicted Commitments: Slavery and Race
6. Images in Conflict: Society, Economy, and Gender
7. The Language of Conflict and the Battlefield of Memory
Epilogue: The Nine-Month Debate and the Crisis of the Union
Appendix A: Senators and Representatives Mentioned, Quoted, or Cited
Appendix B: Quantitative Analysis of the use of Gendered Language: Section, Party, and Age
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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