Format:
Online-Ressource (xvi, 292 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9780807834312
Series Statement:
Civil War America
Content:
This manuscript examines violence in the border region stretching from New Jersey and Maryland in the East to Missouri and Kansas in the West in the antebellum period, from confrontations over kidnappings by slave catchers of fugitive slaves in the antislavery states to armed abolitionist activities in slave states. According to Harrold, a virtual state of war existed along the border as slave escapes increased and abolitionists and slaveholders grew more emboldened to act on behalf of their interests, and the concern over these incidents in both the North and the South was a significant irrit
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Contents; Preface; Introduction Perception of War; 1 Early Clashes; 2 Fear and Reaction in the Border South; 3 Southern Aggression in the Lower North; 4 Interstate Diplomacy; 5 Fighting against Slavery in the Lower North; 6 The Struggle for the Border South; 7 Fighting over the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850; 8 Pressure on the Border South Increases; 9 From Border War to Civil War; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780807834312
Additional Edition:
Print version Border War : The Long Physical Struggle over Slavery Before the Civil War
Language:
English
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