A Union Indivisible: Secession And The Politics Of Slavery In The Border South (Civil War America)
The University of North Carolina Press
ISBN13:
9781469666082
$41.78
Michael Robinson challenges the previously held notions on the dichotomy between the free labor North and the slaveholding South. An examination of the Border South states of Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri--all of which ultimately elected to remain in the Union--reveals that this decision was contingent, contentious, and not nearly as straightforward as most scholarship has acknowledged. Robinson provides a more thorough examination of the secession crisis in these four Border South states, shedding light onto the border southerners' varied and often contradictory responses to the crisis of the Union--
- | Author: Michael D. Robinson
- | Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
- | Publication Date: August 01, 2021
- | Number of Pages: 310 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 1469666081
- | ISBN-13: 9781469666082
- Author:
- Michael D. Robinson
- Publisher:
- The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication Date:
- August 01, 2021
- Number of pages:
- 310 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 1469666081
- ISBN-13:
- 9781469666082