Antislavery Violence: Sectional, Racial, and Cultural Conflict in Antebellum America

ISBN-13: 9781572330597 / Angielski

Stanley Harrold; John R. McKivigan

Opis

Historians present 10 essays on violent action in the US against the institution of slavery and its defenders during the 60 years before the Civil War. Their characters include southern slave rebels, antislavery women in Kansas, violent slave rescuers in Ohio, and northern anti-slavery politicians. They show how the violence helped unite black and white enemies of slavery and how antebellum concepts of gender played a role in justifying and participating in violence.