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Divided by Steve Sheinkin and Toby Cypress , a comical book prequel , to the American Civil War for 2025
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DividedbySteve SheinkinandToby Cypressis a YA nonfictional prose graphic novel set in 1850s Washington DC , in a polarized Carry Amelia Moore Nation on its way to Civil War . How very opportune .
1850 saw Whig senatorHenry Clayand Democratic senatorStephen A. Douglas , with the accompaniment ofPresident Millard Fillmore , introduce The Compromise of 1850 , a package of five separate bills pass on by Congress that temporarily defused tensions between striver and barren land in the class . It apparently did not digest , but the compromise rivet on how to handle thralldom in recently acquired territorial dominion from the Mexican – American War . The note strengthened momentaneous slave laws , banned the striver trade wind in Washington DC , while still allowing slavery itself there , and defined northerly and western margin for Texas while give a territorial government for both the Territory of New Mexico and the Territory of Utah , with no restrictions on whether any succeeding states from this territories would be free or slave . In 1854 , the Kansas – Nebraska Act reversed long - digest compromise by providing that each new land of the Union would decide its posture on thraldom . The newly formed Republican Party stood against the expansion of bondage and won control condition of most Northern states . This , and all that followed , before the withdrawal of American country in 1860 and the American Civil War in 1861 , makes upDivided .
Artist Toby Cypressposted last year"I’ve been working on a new graphic novel at FirstSecond Books about Abraham Lincoln ’s decision to run for President . I ’ve been working on it for the last two years in seclusion which is why you have n’t go through me at convention or post art . But I ’m almost done with preliminary art , and hope for a firing early next year . " Maybe a bit later than that …
Mark SiegelandConnie Hsuat First Second have bought human beings rightfield toDivided , Connie Hsu will edit and publication is contrive for 2026 . Steve Sheinkin ’s agentSusan Cohenat Writers House negotiate the deal .
Steve Sheinkin is the author of fast - paced , cinematic nonfiction account , including Fallout , Undefeated , conduct to Fly , The Port Chicago 50 and Bomb . His awards let in a Newbery Honor , three Boston Globe – Horn Book Awards , a Sibert Medal and Honor , and three National Book Award finalist honours .
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