"The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation"

[Wild Bill]

Of course none of these places had a Constitution that recognized slavery. But perhaps the real issue in the US was more than slavery, so much more that it caused a civil War? I suggest looking at Henry Clay's American system. One can do this in a still controversial book by Thos. DiLorenzo, the Real Lincoln. But that is not the tenor of modern American historiography. This is characterized by Edward H. Bonekemper III, The Myth of the Lost Cause. He has a good footnotes and a bibliography for a start on this, which is a quite involved question, well beyond the scope of the two books.