Slavery on the periphery : the Kansas-Missouri border in the antebellum and Civil War eras
Slavery on the Periphery focuses on nineteen counties on the Kansas-Missouri border, tracing slavery's rise and fall from the earliest years of American settlement through the Civil War along this critical geographical, political, and social fault line. Kristen Epps explores slavery's emer...
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Athens, Georgia :
The University of Georgia Press,
[2016]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Westward ho! Southern settlement on the frontier, 1820-1840
- Becoming little Dixie : the creation of a western slave society, 1840-1854
- Contested ground : the enslaved experience during bleeding Kansas, 1854-1857
- The tide turns : the demise of slavery on the border, 1857-1861
- Entering the promised land : the Black experience in the Civil War years, 1861-1865
- Epilogue.