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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Soike, Lowell J.
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2014.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
War > Causes.
Politics and government.
Antislavery movements.
Abolitionists.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Slavery.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
HISTORY > United States > Civil War Period (1850-1877)
Abolitionnistes > Iowa > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Mouvements antiesclavagistes > Iowa > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Abolitionists > Iowa > History > 19th century.
Antislavery movements > Iowa > History > 19th century.
United States.
Iowa.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Causes.
Iowa > Politics and government > 19th century.
History.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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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