Border war : fighting over slavery before the Civil War / Stanley Harrold.

Border war : fighting over slavery before the Civil War /

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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Main Author: Harrold, Stanley (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2010]
Series:Civil War America (Series)
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.
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