Format:
Online-Ressource (501 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
9780803271890
Content:
Despite the immense body of literature about the American Civil War and its causes, the nation's western involvement in the approaching conflict often gets short shrift. Slavery was the catalyst for fiery rhetoric on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line and fiery conflicts on the western edges of the nation. Driven by questions regarding the place of slavery in westward expansion and by the increasing influence of evangelical Protestant faiths that viewed the institution as inherently sinful, political debates about slavery took on a radicalized, uncompromising fervor in states and territories w
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Description based upon print version of record
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. Uncertainty Rising; 2. The Morning Star; 3. Prairie, Dust, and Wind; 4. "Do Come and Help Us. Come On through Iowa"; 5. Ho! For Kansas; 6. Scramble to Freedom; 7. Raising the Stakes; 8. Heaven Sent; 9. North and Back: Captors and Liberators; Epilogue; Appendix; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index; About the Author
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780803273856
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780803271890
Additional Edition:
Print version Busy in the Cause : Iowa, the Free-State Struggle in the West, and the Prelude to the Civil War
Language:
English
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