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Rebels on the Border - Civil War, Emancipation, and the Reconstruction of Kentucky and Missouri (Paperback)
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Rebels on the Border - Civil War, Emancipation, and the Reconstruction of Kentucky and Missouri (Paperback)
Series: Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
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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.
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