Team of Rivals Chapters 5-6: The Turbulent 1850s

Hello there, readers!

In this week’s reading, we spent most of our time in the 1850s. That prelude decade to the Civil War was a slow burn of events that ultimately led to a great conflagration:

The chronicle of the 1850s is, at bottom, a narrative of the increasing strain placed upon these cords, their gradual fraying, and their final rupture. 

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