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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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Astor, Aaron, 1973-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2012.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.