Slavery on the Periphery (eBook)

The Kansas-Missouri Border in the Antebellum and Civil War Eras

Kristen Epps (Autor)

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2016
284 Seiten
University of Georgia Press (Verlag)
978-0-8203-5051-6 (ISBN)

Infos

Slavery on the Periphery focuses on nineteen counties on the Kansas-Missouri border, tracing slaverys 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 slaverys emergence from an upper South slaveholding culture and its development into a small-scale system characterized by slaves diverse forms of employment, close contact between slaves and slaveholders, a robust hiring market, and the prevalence of abroad marriages. She demonstrates that space and place mattered to enslaved men and women most clearly because slave mobility provided a means of resistance to the strictures of daily life. Mobility was a medium for both negotiation and confrontation between slaves and slaveholders, and the ongoing political conflict between proslavery supporters and antislavery proponents opened new doors for such resistance. Slaverys expansion on the Kansas-Missouri border was no mere intellectual debate within the halls of Congress. Its horrors had become a visible presence in a region so torn by bloody conflict that it captivated the nineteenth-century American public.Foregrounding African Americans place in the border narrative illustrates how slaverys presence set the stage for the Civil War and emancipation here, as it did elsewhere in the United States.

Autor

KRISTEN EPPS is an associate professor of history at the University of Central Arkansas. Her work has been published in the edited collection Bleeding Kansas, Bleeding Missouri: The Long Civil War on the Border.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.12.2016
• Reihe/Serie: Early American Places Ser.
• Reihe/Serie: Early American Places Ser.
• Zusatzinfo: 3 b&w images
• Verlagsort: Athens
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
• Schlagworte: American Society • Black History • borderland • border state • Emancipation • enslaved people • Greater Reconstruction • history of slavery • Midwest • Missouri Compromise • Nineteenth century • slave economy • slavery expansion • slave state • slave studies • upper south • wartime conflict • Westward Expansion • Wild West
• ISBN-10: 0-8203-5051-6 / 0820350516
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-5051-6 / 9780820350516