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From award-winning historian Leonard L. Richards, an

authoritative and revealing portrait of an overlooked harbinger of

the terrible battle yet to come.

When gold was discovered at Sutter's Mill in 1848, Americans of all

stripes saw the potential for both wealth and power. Among the more

calculating were Southern slave owners. By making California a

slave state, they could increase the value of their slaves—by 50

percent at least, and maybe much more. They could also gain

additional influence in Congress and expand Southern economic

clout, abetted by a new transcontinental railroad that would run

through the South. Yet, despite their machinations, California

entered the union as a free state. Disillusioned Southerners would

agitate for even more slave territory, leading to the

Kansas-Nebraska Act and, ultimately, to the Civil War itself.

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Leonard L. Richards, Professor of History at

the University of Massachusetts, grew up in California, and earned

his AB, MA, and Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley and

Davis. He has also taught at San Francisco State College and the

University of Hawaii. His "Gentlemen of Property and Standing":

Anti-Abolition Mobs in Jacksonian America won the American

Historical Association's Albert J. Beveridge Award in 1970. The

Life and Times of Congressman John Quincy Adams was a Finalist

for the Pulitzer Prize in 1987 and The Slave Power: The Free

North and Southern Domination, 1780-1860 took the second-place

Lincoln Prize in 2001. He is also the author, with William

Graebner, of The American Record (1981, 1987, 1995, 2000,

2005) and of Shay's Rebellion: The American Revolution's Final

Battle (2002). He and his wife live in Amherst,

Massachusetts.

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“Richards, a leading historian of 19th century America superbly

illuminates gold rush California as a land in contention between

national pro– and anti–slavery lobbies in the decade leading up to

the Civil War.”

—

Publishers Weekly

(starred review)

“Richards offers a broad panorama that moves seamlessly from the

gold fields to the halls of congress. This is an excellent work of

popular history that will add to the appreciation of a critical

epoch in our national development.”

—

Booklist

“Brings to life a population of scheming officeholders, xenophobic

Californians and frantic slaveholders, all of whom resorted to the

ultimate frontier solution: violence.’

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Kirkus Reviews

“An engrossing chronicle of the political intrigues that engulfed

California in the 1850s, when pro-Southern legislators there angled

to turn the state’s newfound wealth to the benefit of the slave

economy.”

—

The Atlantic

“The important back-story of the Gold Rush, according to gifted

historian Leonard Richards, is political and racial. Mr. Richards

contends in this insightful new book,

The California Gold Rush

and the Coming of the Civil War

that for every fortune seeker

who viewed California as a place to get rich discovering gold,

another believed it a place to get rich exporting, utilizing, or

trafficking in human slaves. . . . [A] gripping book.”

—

The New York Sun

“Richards meticulously catalogs details of 19th-century American

legislation that nonspecilaists won’t have thought about since high

school: the Missouri Compromise, the Gadsden Purchase, the

Kansas-Nebraska Act. But when he places the actors center stage to

reveal the motives behind the politics, the narrative approaches

the Shakespearean.”

—

Tennessean

“With a mastery that brings even his bit players to life, Leonard

Richards tells a gripping story about politics, business, violence,

and the scoundrels who almost destroyed the United States. If you

think you already know this story, you're in for some nice

surprises. And if you don’t, there’s no better guide.”

—Robin L. Einhorn, author of

American Taxation, American

Slavery

“Leonard Richards has once again produced a wonderful,

entertaining, and informative account of antebellum politics. Most

important, he shows the myriad forces–greed, ambition, idealism,

racism, patronage, migration, expansionism–that melded together to

distance southerners from northerners. Any one reading this work

will come away with a deep understanding of how the antagonism

between free and slave labor systems constituted the volatile fuel

that made the explosion of secession and civil war possible.”

—James L. Huston, author of

Calculating the Value of the Union:

Slavery, Property Rights, and the Economic Origins of the Civil

War

“A truly rollicking book, full of colorful characters,

duels, hard-rock miners, ‘Chivs,’ and back-stabbing politics. But

its readability belies the centrality of these seemingly minor

characters to the drama of the nation’s sectional crisis. The

Golden State can no longer be ignored by those wishing to tell the

story of how the nation came to civil war.”

—Jonathan H. Earle, author of

Jacksonian Antislavery and the

Politics of Free Soil, 1824-1854

From the Hardcover edition.