Rebels on the Border : Civil War, Emancipation, and the Reconstruction of Kentucky and Missouri /
Rebels on the Border offers a remarkably compelling and significant study of the Civil War South's highly contested and bloodiest border states: Kentucky and Missouri. By far the most complex examination to date, the book sharply focuses on the "borderland" between the free North and...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Baton Rouge :
Louisiana State University Press,
2012.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Building the western middle ground
- In defense of slavery and union
- Rebels in black and white
- Holding Kentucky and Missouri for the union
- Dual rebellion and the death of conservative unionism
- Black soldiers and regulator violence
- The perils and promise of self-reconstruction
- Remaking the white man's democracy
- Black suffrage and the new political order.


