The Debate over Inevitability

9/27/99

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The Debate over Inevitability

A Fundamentalist Interpretation

A Revisionist Critique

Recent Interpretations

Four �Turning Points,� with Counterfactual Speculations

Slavery and Federal Design, 1784-87

Missouri Controversy, 1819-21

The Virginia Slavery Debate, 1832

Controversy over Texas, 1836-48

Author: Gary J. Kornblith

Email: gary.kornblith@oberlin.edu

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