Border War
Fighting over Slavery Before the Civil War
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2010]
Format: Book
Description: xvi, 292 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm.
During the 1840s and 1850s, a dangerous ferment afflicted the North-South border region, pitting the slave states of Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky, and Missouri against the free states of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. Aspects of this struggle--the underground railroad, enforcement of the fugitive slave laws, mob actions, and sectional politics--are well known as parts of other stories. Here, Stanley Harrold explores the border struggle itself, the dramatic incidents that comprised it, and its role in the complex dynamics leading to the Civil War.
Series: Civil War America (Series)
Contents:
Introduction : perception of war -- Early clashes -- Fear and reaction in the border South -- Southern aggression in the lower North -- Interstate diplomacy -- Fighting against slavery in the lower North -- The struggle for the border South -- Fighting over the fugitive slave law -- Pressure on the border South increases -- From border war to Civil War.
Subjects:
United States. Fugitive slave law (1850)
Slavery -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Fugitive slaves -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States.
Slavery -- United States -- Legal status of enslaved persons in free states.
Slavery -- Law and legislation -- United States.
Border States (U.S. Civil War)
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Causes.
United States. Fugitive slave law (1850)
Slavery -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Fugitive slaves -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States.
Slavery -- United States -- Legal status of enslaved persons in free states.
Slavery -- Law and legislation -- United States.
Border States (U.S. Civil War)
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Causes.
ISBN:
0807834319
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HISTORY North Am. US AF AM Slavery Har | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references and index.