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American Mobbing 1828-1961: Toward Civil War (Paperback, Revised)
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American Mobbing 1828-1961: Toward Civil War (Paperback, Revised)
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American Mobbing, 1828-1861: Toward Civil War is a comprehensive
history of mob violence related to sectional issues in antebellum
America. David Grimsted argues that, though the issue of slavery
provoked riots in both the North and the South, the riots produced
two different reactions from authorities. In the South, riots
against suspected abolitionists and slave insurrectionists were
widely tolerated as a means of quelling anti-slavery sentiment. In
the North, both pro-slavery riots attacking abolitionists and
anti-slavery riots in support of fugitive slaves provoked reluctant
but often effective riot suppression. Hundreds died in riots in
both regions, but in the North, most deaths were caused by
authorities, while in the South more than 90 percent of deaths were
caused by the mobs themselves.
These two divergent systems of violence led to two distinct public
responses. In the South, widespread rioting quelled public and
private questioning of slavery; in the North, the milder, more
controlled riots generally encouraged sympathy for the anti-slavery
movement. Grimsted demonstrates that in these two distinct
reactions to mob violence, we can see major origins of the social
split that infiltrated politics and political rioting and that
ultimately led to the Civil War.
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