Blind no more : African American resistance, free-soil politics, and the coming of the Civil War /

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"The cause of disunion was the persistent determination on the part of enslaved people that they would flee bondage no matter the risks. By protesting against kidnappings and fugitive slave renditions, they brought slavery to the doorstep of the free states, forcing those states to recognize th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wells, Jonathan Daniel, 1969- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens, Georgia : The University of Georgia Press, [2019]
Colección:Mercer University Lamar memorial lectures ; no. 57.
Temas:
United States. > Fugitive slave law (1850)
Fugitive slave law (United States : 1850)
1800-1899
Fugitive slaves > Legal status, laws, etc. > United States.
Slavery > Political aspects > United States > History > 19th century.
LAW > Constitutional.
LAW > Public.
HISTORY > African American.
Fugitive slaves > Legal status, laws, etc.
Slavery > Political aspects.
United States.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The long Civil War: kidnapping and black activists in the early republic
  • The making of the Fugitive slave law and the sectional crisis
  • Civil conflict in the north: reactions to the Fugitive slave law in the fall of 1850
  • Trying to save the Union: battles over the Fugitive slave law in the 1850s
  • An end to compromise.

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