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Bonds of Union - Religion, Race, and Politics in a Civil War Borderland (Hardcover)
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Bonds of Union - Religion, Race, and Politics in a Civil War Borderland (Hardcover)
Series: Civil War America
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This vivid history of the Civil War era reveals how unexpected
bonds of union forged among diverse peoples in the Ohio-Kentucky
borderlands furthered emancipation through a period of spiraling
chaos between 1830 and 1865. Moving beyond familiar arguments about
Lincoln's deft politics or regional commercial ties, Bridget Ford
recovers the potent religious, racial, and political attachments
holding the country together at one of its most likely breaking
points, the Ohio River. Living in a bitterly contested region, the
Americans examined here-Protestant and Catholic, black and white,
northerner and southerner-made zealous efforts to understand the
daily lives and struggles of those on the opposite side of vexing
human and ideological divides. In their common pursuits of
religious devotionalism, universal public education regardless of
race, and relief from suffering during wartime, Ford discovers a
surprisingly capacious and inclusive sense of political union in
the Civil War era. While accounting for the era's many
disintegrative forces, Ford reveals the imaginative work that went
into bridging stark differences in lived experience, and she posits
that work as a precondition for slavery's end and the Union's
persistence.
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