The making of a southerner

By Christopher Phillips

Subjects: Biography, Politics and government, Missouri Civil War, 1861-1865, Slaveholders, Judges, Political aspects of Slavery, Slavery, United States Civil War, 1861-1865, History, Political aspects, Political and social views

Description: "Drawn from personal journals kept for more than fifty years and from a vast professional and family correspondence, the life story of William Barclay Napton offers an important perspective on the issues and events that turned this northerner into an avowed proslavery ideologue and finally into a full southerner"--Provided by publisher.