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Bleeding Kansas, Bleeding Missouri

Bleeding Kansas, Bleeding Missouri

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A collection of essays that blends political, military, social and intellectual history to explain why the region's divisiveness was so bitter and persisted for so long. The book defines both what divided and united the men and women who lived there and how various political disagreements ultimately disintegrated into violence. 

The contributors examine this key chapter in American history in all of its complexity. Essays on "Slavery and Politics of Law and Order along the Border" examine how the border region was transformed by conflict over the status of slavery in Kansas Territory and how the conflict on the Kansas and Missouri border took on a larger national significance.

As this collection shows, only when Missourians and Kansans embraced a common vision for America - one based on shared agricultural practices, ideas for economic development and racial equality - could the citizens on both sides of the border reconcile.

Edited by Jonathan Earle and Diane Mutti Burke

360 pages, paperback, 9 x 6"

 

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