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Border War: Fighting over Slavery before the Civil War
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.
Book Details
- Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
- Publish Date: Feb 1st, 2013
- Pages: 312
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 9.30in - 6.16in - 0.68in - 1.00lb
- EAN: 9781469606859
- Categories: • United States - 19th Century• Slavery• United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877)
About the Author
Harrold, Stanley: - Stanley Harrold is professor of history at South Carolina State University.
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Praise for this book
A good addition to all Civil War collections.--Library Journal
This work forces historians to reconsider the fault lines of the origins of the Civil War and promises new directions for research. Highly recommended.--Choice
Stanley Harrold has written an excellent book that is sure to prompt debate and additional research. It will be required reading for historians of the slavery controversy in the United States.--Civil War Book Review
Fast-paced, lucid, and well-researched.--American Historical Review
[This book] can help those trying to develop a better understanding of the issues that led to secession. . . . Highly recommended.--Blue & Gray Magazine
[This book] should immediately be standard reading for all historians of antebellum America.--Journal of Southern History
A sobering, meticulously researched and astutely presented historical analysis, highly recommended especially for college library collections.--Midwest Book Review
This book is important in understanding the intense feelings on both sides of the conflict that help lead to the start of our American Civil War. . . . Excellent.--Lone Star Book Review
Border War is a must-have for anyone seeking to understand the small-scale underlying fights that snowballed the Civil War. . . . Textbooks and many leading historical works leave gaps by portraying the sweeping movements, but Harrold fills in the details without which a true and thorough understanding of the slavery issue and the Civil War is impossible.--Virginia Libraries
[Border War] is a solid, detailed narrative of the violent conflict that developed along the border between the North and South in the decades before the Civil War.--The Annals of Iowa