A Union Indivisible : Secession and the Politics of Slavery in the Border South.
"Michael Robinson challenges the previously held notions on the dichotomy between the free labor North and the slaveholding South. An examination of the Border South states of Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri--all of which ultimately elected to remain in the Union--reveals that this d...
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| التنسيق: | Licensed eBooks |
| اللغة: | الإنجليزية |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press
2017.
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| سلاسل: | Civil War America Ser.
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| الوصول للمادة أونلاين: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5149/9781469633794_robinson |
| الملخص: | "Michael Robinson challenges the previously held notions on the dichotomy between the free labor North and the slaveholding South. An examination of the Border South states of Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri--all of which ultimately elected to remain in the Union--reveals that this decision was contingent, contentious, and not nearly as straightforward as most scholarship has acknowledged. Robinson provides a more thorough examination of the secession crisis in these four Border South states, shedding light onto the border southerners' varied and often contradictory responses to the crisis of the Union"-- |
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| وصف مادي: | 1 online resource (311 pages) |
| بيبلوغرافيا: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ردمك: | 9781469633800 1469633809 9781469633794 1469633795 9781469633787 1469633787 |