Busy in the cause : Iowa, the free-state struggle in the west, and the prelude to the Civil War /

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"Despite the immense body of literature about the American Civil War and its causes, the nation's western involvement in the approaching conflict often gets short shrift. Slavery was the catalyst for fiery rhetoric on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line and conflicts on the western edges of...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Soike, Lowell J.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2014.
Subjects:
1800-1899
Antislavery movements > Iowa > History > 19th century.
Abolitionists > Iowa > History > 19th century.
Mouvements antiesclavagistes > Iowa > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Abolitionnistes > Iowa > Histoire > 19e siècle.
HISTORY > United States > Civil War Period (1850-1877)
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Slavery.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
Abolitionists
Antislavery movements
Politics and government
War > Causes
Iowa > Politics and government > 19th century.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Causes.
Iowa
United States
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. Uncertainty Rising; 2. The Morning Star; 3. Prairie, Dust, and Wind; 4. "Do Come and Help Us. Come On through Iowa"; 5. Ho! For Kansas; 6. Scramble to Freedom; 7. Raising the Stakes; 8. Heaven Sent; 9. North and Back: Captors and Liberators; Epilogue; Appendix; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index; About the Author

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