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American mobbing, 1828-1861 : toward Civil War /
American Mobbing, 1828-1861: Toward Civil War is a comprehensive history of mob violence related to sectional issues in antebellum America. David Grimsted argues that, though the issue of slavery provoked riots in both the North and the South, the riots produced two different reactions from authorit...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1998.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | American Mobbing, 1828-1861: Toward Civil War is a comprehensive history of mob violence related to sectional issues in antebellum America. David Grimsted argues that, though the issue of slavery provoked riots in both the North and the South, the riots produced two different reactions from authorities. In the South, riots against suspected abolitionists and slave insurrectionists were widely tolerated as a means of quelling anti-slavery sentiment. In the North, both pro-slavery riots attacking abolitionists and anti-slavery riots in support of fugitive slaves provoked reluctant but often effe. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xx, 372 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780195353662 0195353668 1423785134 9781423785132 1280428104 9781280428104 1280470372 9781280470370 0195303970 9780195303971 |