Border war : fighting over slavery before the Civil War / Stanley Harrold.
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...
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| Format: | Electronic |
| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill :
The University of North Carolina Press,
[2010]
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| Series: | Civil War America (Series)
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| Online Access: | Click for online access |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvi, 292 pages) : illustrations, map |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780807899557 0807899550 9781469603889 1469603888 |