Rebels on the Border offers a remarkably compelling and
significant study of the Civil War South's highly contested and
bloodiest border states: Kentucky and Missouri. By far the most
complex examination to date, the book sharply focuses on the
"borderland" between the free North and the Confederate South. As a
result, Rebels on the Border deepens and enhances understanding of
the sectional conflict, the Civil War, and Reconstruction.
After slaves in central Kentucky and Missouri gained their
emancipation, author Aaron Astor contends, they transformed
informal kin and social networks of resistance against slavery into
more formalized processes of electoral participation and
institution building. At the same time, white politics in
Kentucky's Bluegrass and Missouri's Little Dixie underwent an
electoral realignment in response to the racial and social
revolution caused by the war and its aftermath. Black citizenship
and voting rights provoked a violent white reaction and a cultural
reinterpretation of white regional identity. After the war, the
majority of wartime Unionists in the Bluegrass and Little Dixie
joined former Confederate guerrillas in the Democratic Party in an
effort to stifle the political ambitions of former slaves.
Rebels on the Border is not simply a story of bitter political
struggles, partisan guerrilla warfare, and racial violence. Like no
other scholarly account of Kentucky and Missouri during the Civil
War, it places these two crucial heartland states within the broad
context of local, southern, and national politics.
General
Imprint: |
Louisiana State University Press
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War |
Release date: |
April 2012 |
First published: |
May 2012 |
Authors: |
Aaron Astor
|
Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 28mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover - Paper over boards / With dust jacket
|
Pages: |
344 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8071-4298-1 |
Categories: |
Books >
Humanities >
History >
General
Books >
History >
General
|
LSN: |
0-8071-4298-0 |
Barcode: |
9780807142981 |
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