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Book Western Border Life  Or  What Fanny Hunter Saw and Heard in Kanzas and Missouri

Download or read book Western Border Life Or What Fanny Hunter Saw and Heard in Kanzas and Missouri written by and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Western Border Life  Or  What Fanny Hunter Was And Heard In Kansas And Missouri

Download or read book Western Border Life Or What Fanny Hunter Was And Heard In Kansas And Missouri written by Anonymous and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2018-02-28 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book Bleeding Borders

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  • Author : Kristen Tegtmeier Oertel
  • Publisher : LSU Press
  • Release : 2009-04-01
  • ISBN : 0807148768
  • Pages : 377 pages

Download or read book Bleeding Borders written by Kristen Tegtmeier Oertel and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2009-04-01 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Bleeding Borders, Kristen Tegtmeier Oertel offers a fresh, multifaceted interpretation of the quintessential sectional conflict in pre--Civil War Kansas. Instead of focusing on the white, male politicians and settlers who vied for control of the Kansas territorial legislature, Oertel explores the crucial roles Native Americans, African Americans, and white women played in the literal and rhetorical battle between proslavery and antislavery settlers in the region. She brings attention to the local debates and the diverse peoples who participated in them during that contentious period. Oertel begins by detailing the settlement of eastern Kansas by emigrant Indian tribes and explores their interaction with the growing number of white settlers in the region. She analyzes the attempts by southerners to plant slavery in Kansas and the ultimately successful resistance of slaves and abolitionists. Oertel then considers how crude frontier living conditions, Indian conflict, political upheaval, and sectional violence reshaped traditional Victorian gender roles in Kansas and explores women's participation in the political and physical conflicts between proslavery and antislavery settlers. Oertel goes on to examine northern and southern definitions of "true manhood" and how competing ideas of masculinity infused political and sectional tensions. She concludes with an analysis of miscegenation -- not only how racial mixing between Indians, slaves, and whites influenced events in territorial Kansas, but more importantly, how the fear of miscegenation fueled both proslavery and antislavery arguments about the need for civil war. As Oertel demonstrates, the players in Bleeding Kansas used weapons other than their Sharpes rifles and Bowie knives to wage war over the extension of slavery: they attacked each other's cultural values and struggled to assert their own political wills. They jealously guarded ideals of manhood, womanhood, and whiteness even as the presence of Indians and blacks and the debate over slavery raised serious questions about the efficacy of these principles. Oertel argues that, ultimately, many Native Americans, blacks, and women shaped the political and cultural terrain in ways that ensured the destruction of slavery, but they, along with their white male counterparts, failed to defeat the resilient power of white supremacy. Moving beyond a conventional political history of Bleeding Kansas, Bleeding Borders breaks new ground by revealing how the struggles of this highly diverse region contributed to the national move toward disunion and how the ideologies that governed race and gender relations were challenged as North, South, and West converged on the border between slavery and freedom.

Book Lethal Imagination

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  • Author : Michael A. Bellesiles
  • Publisher : NYU Press
  • Release : 1999-03
  • ISBN : 0814712959
  • Pages : 459 pages

Download or read book Lethal Imagination written by Michael A. Bellesiles and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1999-03 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the role of violence in America's past, this collection of essays explores its history and development from slave patrols in the colonial South to gun ownership in the 20th century. The contributors focus not only on individual acts such as domestic violence, murder, duelling, frontier vigilantism and rape, but also on group and state-led acts such as lynchings, slave uprisings, the establishment of rifle clubs, legal sanctions of heterosexual aggression, and invasive medical experiments on women's bodies.

Book The Slaveholding Republic

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  • Author : the late Don E. Fehrenbacher
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2002-12-19
  • ISBN : 0190289120
  • Pages : 481 pages

Download or read book The Slaveholding Republic written by the late Don E. Fehrenbacher and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2002-12-19 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many leading historians have argued that the Constitution of the United States was a proslavery document. But in The Slaveholding Republic, one of America's most eminent historians refutes this claim in a landmark history that stretches from the Continental Congress to the Presidency of Abraham Lincoln. Fehrenbacher shows that the Constitution itself was more or less neutral on the issue of slavery and that, in the antebellum period, the idea that the Constitution protected slavery was hotly debated (many Northerners would concede only that slavery was protected by state law, not by federal law). Nevertheless, he also reveals that U.S. policy abroad and in the territories was consistently proslavery. Fehrenbacher makes clear why Lincoln's election was such a shock to the South and shows how Lincoln's approach to emancipation, which seems exceedingly cautious by modern standards, quickly evolved into a "Republican revolution" that ended the anomaly of the United States as a "slaveholding republic."

Book The Antislavery Novel  1836 1861

Download or read book The Antislavery Novel 1836 1861 written by Donald Edward Liedel and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Rediscoveries  Literature and Place in Illinois

Download or read book Rediscoveries Literature and Place in Illinois written by Robert C. Bray and published by Urbana : University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue

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  • Author : Morrill, Edward & son, booksellers, Boston
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1940
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 794 pages

Download or read book Catalogue written by Morrill, Edward & son, booksellers, Boston and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 794 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Nineteenth Century Short title Catalogue  phase 1  1816 1870

Download or read book Nineteenth Century Short title Catalogue phase 1 1816 1870 written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: