风暴的地狱：堪萨斯之战、妥协的结束和内战的到来

English | ISBN: 1668022818 | 2024 | EPUB | 352 pages | 16 MB

David S. Brown, "A Hell of a Storm: The Battle for Kansas, the End of Compromise, and the Coming of the Civil War"

From popular historian and author of the “marvelous” (The New York Times Book Review) The Last American Aristocrat comes the fascinating story of how in 1854, a new law—the Kansas-Nebraska Act—unexpectedly became the greatest miscalculation in American history, dividing North and South, creating the Republican party, and paving the way for the Civil War.

The history of the United States includes a series of sectional compromises—the Constitutional Convention, the Missouri Compromise in 1820, and the Compromise of 1850. While these accords created an imperfect republic, or “a house divided,” as Lincoln put it, the country remained united. But then in 1854, this three-generations system suddenly blew up with the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, and here, David Brown explores in riveting detail how the Act led to the sudden division of North and South.

The Act declared that planters, if permitted by territorial laws, could bring their enslaved peoples to the land extending from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains—the core of Jefferson’s old Louisiana Purchase which had been reserved for free labor. Northerners were shocked that free soil might now be turned over to slavery and responded with unprecedented backlash. In the bill’s wake the conservative Whig Party (winners of multiple presidential elections) collapsed, and the radical Republican Party was born—in six years it would take control of the central government, provoking Southern secession.

In A Hell of a Storm, Brown brings history to life in a way that resonates with the events of present. Through chapters on Lincoln, Emerson, Stowe, Thoreau, and Tubman, along with a cast of presidents, poets, abolitionists, and black emigrationists, Brown weaves a political, cultural, and literary history that chronicles the Republican party’s creation and rise, the collapse of antebellum compromises, and the coming of the Civil War, all topics that mirror current discussions about polarization in our nation today. By illuminating the personalities and the platforms, the writings and ideas that upended an older America and made space for its successor, A Hell of a Storm reminds us that American history is always being made, and it can be both dynamic and dangerous, both then and now.

中文| ISBN:1668022818 | 2024 | EPUB | 352页| 16 MB大卫·S·布朗，“风暴的地狱：堪萨斯之战、妥协的结束和内战的到来” 《最后的美国贵族》（the Last American Aristocrat）一书由著名历史学家和《纽约时报书评》（the New York Times Book Review）的作者撰写，讲述了1854年一项新法律——堪萨斯-内布拉斯加法案（Kansas Nebraska Act）——出人意料地成为美国历史上最大的误判，分裂了南北，创建了共和党，并为内战铺平了道路。 美国的历史包括一系列局部妥协——制宪会议、1820年的密苏里妥协和1850年的妥协。虽然这些协议创造了一个不完美的共和国，或林肯所说的“分裂的房子”，但国家仍然团结一致。但到了1854年，随着《堪萨斯-内布拉斯加法案》的通过，这个三代人制度突然崩溃了，在这里，大卫·布朗详细探讨了该法案是如何导致南北突然分裂的。 该法案宣布，如果领土法律允许，种植园主可以将被奴役的人民带到从密西西比河延伸到落基山脉的土地上——这是杰斐逊旧路易斯安那购买案的核心，该购买案是为自由劳动力保留的。北方人对自由土地现在可能被交给奴隶制感到震惊，并遭到了前所未有的强烈反对。在该法案出台后，保守的辉格党（多次总统选举的获胜者）垮台，激进的共和党诞生了——六年后，它将控制中央政府，引发南方分裂。 在《风暴地狱》中，布朗以一种与当下事件产生共鸣的方式将历史带入生活。通过关于林肯、爱默生、斯托、梭罗和塔布曼的章节，以及总统、诗人、废奴主义者和黑人移民主义者，布朗编织了一部政治、文化和文学史，记录了共和党的创建和崛起、南北战争前妥协的崩溃和内战的到来，所有这些话题都反映了当今我们国家关于两极分化的讨论。通过阐明颠覆旧美国并为其继任者腾出空间的个性和平台、著作和思想，《风暴的地狱》提醒我们，美国历史总是在创造的，无论是当时还是现在，它都是充满活力和危险的。

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