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By Rachel A. Shelden

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conventional portrayals of politicians in antebellum Washington, D.C., describe a violent and divisive society, jam-packed with indignant debates and violent duels, a microcosm of the development animosity through the kingdom. but, in Washington Brotherhood, Rachel Shelden paints a extra nuanced portrait of Washington as a much less fractious urban with a colourful social and cultural lifestyles. Politicians from diversified events and sections of the rustic interacted in numerous day by day actions outdoor conventional political areas and got here to understand each other on a private point. Shelden exhibits that this engagement through figures corresponding to Stephen Douglas, John Crittenden, Abraham Lincoln, and Alexander Stephens had vital results for the way lawmakers handled the sectional disputes that bedeviled the rustic in the course of the 1840s and 1850s--particularly disputes regarding slavery within the territories.
Shelden makes use of fundamental documents--from housing files to non-public diaries--to display the ways that this political sociability prompted how legislation have been made within the antebellum period. finally, this Washington "bubble" explains why such a lot of of those males have been unprepared for secession and conflict whilst the iciness of 1860-61 arrived.

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