Bleeding Kansas Slavery, Sectionalism, and Civil War on the Missouri-Kansas Border Critical Moments in American History Series
Auteur : Woods Michael
Between 1854 and 1861, the struggle between pro-and anti-slavery factions over Kansas Territory captivated Americans nationwide and contributed directly to the Civil War. Combining political, social, and military history, Bleeding Kansas contextualizes and analyzes prewar and wartime clashes in Kansas and Missouri and traces how these conflicts have been remembered ever since. Michael E. Woods?s compelling narrative of the Kansas-Missouri border struggle embraces the diverse perspectives of white northerners and southerners, women, Native Americans, and African Americans. This wide-ranging and engaging text is ideal for undergraduate courses on the Civil War era, westward expansion, Kansas and/or Missouri history, nineteenth-century US history, and other related subjects. Supported by primary source documents and a robust companion website, this text allows readers to engage with and draw their own conclusions about this contentious era in American History.
1. Three Roads to Kansas
2. Kansas Bleeds
3. Bleeding Kansas and the Nation
4. The Civil War on the Border
5. Remembering the Bloodshed
Documents
Michael E. Woods is Assistant Professor of History at Marshall University. He is the author of Emotional and Sectional Conflict in the Antebellum United States (2014), which received the 2015 James A. Rawley Award from the Southern Historical Association.
Date de parution : 09-2016
15.2x22.9 cm
Date de parution : 10-2016
15.2x22.9 cm
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Mots-clés :
Bleeding Kansas; Proslavery Missourians; Kansas Territory; Slavery Expansion; Missouri; Free State Settlers; western expansion; Kansas Nebraska Act; Western history; Free State; history of the West; Border Ruffians; John Brown; Missouri Slaves; Missouri Compromise; Antislavery Northerners; Compromise of 1850; Joseph Savage; Free Soil; Kansas State Historical Society; continental expansion; Confederate Guerrillas; Proslavery Men; William Quantrill; Ban Slavery; Indian Country; Young Men; Border War; Brown’s Sons; Proslavery Southerners; Western Missouri; Popular Sovereignty; Northern Democrats