Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: unification and (re- )division: the significance of Massachusetts in the Civil War era
  • Part I. The opposition to slavery
  • The union of abolitionists and emancipationists in Civil War/era Massachusetts / John Stauffer
  • "Constitution or no constitution, law or no law": the Boston Vigilance Committees, 1841-1861 / Dean Grodzins
  • "Today abolitionist is merged in citizen": radical abolitionists and the union war / Peter Wirzbicki
  • The rise and fall of the abolitionist republic / Richard S. Newman
  • Part II. The war years
  • The politics of unionism: Edward Everett, the Constitutional Union Party, and the election of 1860 / Matthew Mason
  • McClellan in the hub: Boston's financiers and the war for emancipation / Carol Bundy
  • The bonds of print: reading on home front and battlefield / Ronald J. Zboray and Mary Saracino Zboray
  • Part III. Reconciliation
  • Mourning Charles Sumner: the flag resolution and the complications of Civil War memory / Sarah Purcell
  • Reporting from the south: Massachusetts teachers and freedmen's education / Amy F. Morsman
  • The union of gentlemen restored: college-educated northern veterans, reconciliation, and northern honor / Kanisorn Wongsrichanalai.