Slavery on the periphery : the Kansas-Missouri border in the antebellum and Civil War eras

ISBN: 9780820350509
ISBN: 0820350508
Physical Description: xv, 265 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. print
Publisher: Athens, Georgia : The University of Georgia Press, [2016]
Copyright: &copy;2016

Summary: Foregrounding African Americans' place in the border narrative illustrates how slavery's presence set the stage for the Civil War and emancipation here, as it did elsewhere in the United States.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-258) and index.

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List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Westward ho! Southern settlement on the frontier, 1820-1840 -- Becoming little Dixie: the creation of a western slave society, 1840-1854 -- Contested ground: the enslaved experience during bleeding Kansas, 1854-1857 -- The tide turns: the demise of slavery on the border, 1857-1861 -- Entering the promised land: the Black experience in the Civil War years, 1861-1865 -- Epilogue -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.