The Crisis (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: Winston Churchill
- First Published: 1901
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Historical
- Time of Work: 1860’s
- Genres: Long fiction, Historical fiction
- Subjects: Love or romance, South or Southerners, Abolitionists, Nineteenth century, Slavery or slaves, Civil War, Lawyers, Judges, Soldiers, Battles
- Locales: St. Louis, MO
Places Discussed
*St. Louis. Major Mississippi River port city and principal city of Missouri, a border state that was occupied by Union troops before it could declare itself for the Confederacy when the Civil War began in 1861. Union generals Ulysses S. Grant and William T. Sherman spent many years in St. Louis before the war. South St. Louis had a large proabolition population of Germans, who had left Germany after the failure of the revolutions of 1848. However, St. Louis was also a city in which many southern aristocrats lived, along with others who had relocated from the...
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