Lincoln and Douglas at Freeport: A New Look at an Old Question

Leonard Richards, The Slave Power: The Free North and Southern Domination, 1780–1860 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2000). The term “manifest destiny” was coined in an unsigned 1845 editorial in the Democratic Review, which is believed to have been authored by John L. O’Sullivan. The Transformation of America, 1815–1848 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007), 703; Robert W. Johannsen, “The Meaning of Manifest Destiny,” in Manifest Destiny and Empire: American Antebellum Expansion, ed. Frederick Merk, Manifest Destiny and Mission in American History (New York: Random House, 1963), 34–38.