Title Border war : fighting over slavery before the Civil War / Stanley Harrold.

Publication Info.	Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2010]
	©2010

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Description	1 online resource (xvi, 292 pages) : illustrations, map.
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Series	Civil War America
	Civil War America (Series)
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Introduction : perception of war -- Early clashes -- Fear and reaction in the border South -- Southern aggression in the lower North -- Interstate diplomacy -- Fighting against slavery in the lower North -- The struggle for the border South -- Fighting over the fugitive slave law -- Pressure on the border South increases -- From border war to Civil War.
Summary	This manuscript examines violence in the border region stretching from New Jersey and Maryland in the East to Missouri and Kansas in the West in the antebellum period, from confrontations over kidnappings by slave catchers of fugitive slaves in the antislavery states to armed abolitionist activities in slave states.
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Subject	United States. Fugitive slave law (1850)
	Fugitive slave law (United States : 1850)
	Slavery -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
	Slavery.
	United States.
	History.
Chronological Term	19th century
Subject	Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
	Antislavery movements.
	Fugitive slaves -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States.
	Fugitive slaves -- Legal status, laws, etc.
	Slavery -- United States -- Legal status of enslaved persons in free states.
	Slavery -- Legal status of enslaved persons in free states.
	Slavery -- Law and legislation -- United States.
	Slavery -- Law and legislation.
	Border States (U.S. Civil War)
	United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Causes.
	American Civil War (United States : 1861-1865)
Chronological Term	1800-1899
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	Electronic books.
	History.
Other Form:	Print version: Harrold, Stanley. Border war. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2010 9780807834312 (DLC) 2010018133 (OCoLC)607975620
ISBN	9780807899557 (electronic book)
	0807899550 (electronic book)
	9781469603889 (electronic book)
	1469603888 (electronic book)
	9780807834312
	0807834319

Title Border war : fighting over slavery before the Civil War / Stanley Harrold.

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