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Cotton versus conscience : Massachusetts Whig politics and southwestern expansion, 1843-1848
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- Creator
- Kinley J. Brauer
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- English
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- Lexington : University of Kentucky Press [1967]
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- vi, 272 pages ; 23 cm
- OCLC
- ocm00914341
- "Bibliographical essay": pages 247-258.
- Introduction -- The Massachusetts Whig party -- Massachusetts, expansion, and Texas -- The rise of the Texas issue, 1843-1844 -- Divisions within the party, 1842-1844 -- Alliances with abolitionists, 1845 -- The Massachusetts state Texas committee -- Conscience Whigs versus cotton Whigs -- The election of 1846 -- Isolation and movements toward separation -- The bolt of the conscience Whigs