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More American than southern : Kentucky, slavery, and the war for an American ideology, 1828-1861 /

When Fort Sumter fell to Confederate troops in April 1861, most states quickly declared their allegiances to the North or South. Kentucky, however, assumed an antiwar posture that outlasted Fort Sumter by five months, begrudgingly joining the Union cause only when Confederate troops marched into the...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Matthews, Gary Robert, 1949-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Knoxville : The University of Tennessee Press, 2014.
Edición:First edition.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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