{"product_id":"the-california-gold-rush-and-the-coming-of-the-civil-war-paperback","title":"The California Gold Rush and the Coming of the Civil War - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLeonard L. Richards\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAward-winning historian Leonard L. Richards gives us an authoritative and revealing portrait of an overlooked harbinger of the terrible battle that was to come.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen gold was discovered at Sutter's Mill in 1848, Americans of all stripes saw the potential for both wealth and power. Among the more calculating were Southern slave owners. By making California a slave state, they could increase the value of their slaves--by 50 percent at least, and maybe much more. They could also gain additional influence in Congress and expand Southern economic clout, abetted by a new transcontinental railroad that would run through the South. Yet, despite their machinations, California entered the union as a free state. Disillusioned Southerners would agitate for even more slave territory, leading to the Kansas-Nebraska Act and, ultimately, to the Civil War itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLeonard L. Richards\u003c\/b\u003e, Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts, grew up in California, and earned his AB, MA, and Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley and Davis. He has also taught at San Francisco State College and the University of Hawaii. His \u003ci\u003e\"Gentlemen of Property and Standing\" Anti-Abolition Mobs in Jacksonian America \u003c\/i\u003ewon the American Historical Association's Albert J. Beveridge Award in 1970. \u003ci\u003eThe Life and Times of Congressman John Quincy Adams \u003c\/i\u003ewas a Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 1987 and \u003ci\u003eThe Slave Power: The Free North and Southern Domination, 1780-1860 \u003c\/i\u003etook the second-place Lincoln Prize in 2001. He is also the author, with William Graebner, of \u003ci\u003eThe American Record \u003c\/i\u003e(1981, 1987, 1995, 2000, 2005) and of \u003ci\u003eShay's Rebellion: The American Revolution's Final Battle \u003c\/i\u003e(2002). He and his wife live in Amherst, Massachusetts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.63 x 8.02 x 5.86 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 12, 2008\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52761730482509,"sku":"9780307277572","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0927\/3304\/7117\/files\/q6MoXXn0wY9780307277572.webp?v=1763005832","url":"https:\/\/belfastbooks.us\/products\/the-california-gold-rush-and-the-coming-of-the-civil-war-paperback","provider":"belfastbooks.us","version":"1.0","type":"link"}