The Black Laws

The Black Laws

Author: Stephen Middleton

Publisher: Ohio University Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 377

ISBN-13: 0821416235

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Beginning in 1803, and continuing for several decades, the Ohio legislature enacted what came to be known as the Black Laws. Stephen Middleton tells the story of this racial oppression in Ohio and provides chilling episodes of how blacks asserted their freedom from the enactment of the Black Laws until the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment.


A Union Indivisible

A Union Indivisible

Author: Michael D. Robinson

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2017-10-03

Total Pages: 311

ISBN-13: 1469633795

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Many accounts of the secession crisis overlook the sharp political conflict that took place in the Border South states of Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri. Michael D. Robinson expands the scope of this crisis to show how the fate of the Border South, and with it the Union, desperately hung in the balance during the fateful months surrounding the clash at Fort Sumter. During this period, Border South politicians revealed the region's deep commitment to slavery, disputed whether or not to leave the Union, and schemed to win enough support to carry the day. Although these border states contained fewer enslaved people than the eleven states that seceded, white border Southerners chose to remain in the Union because they felt the decision best protected their peculiar institution. Robinson reveals anew how the choice for union was fraught with anguish and uncertainty, dividing families and producing years of bitter internecine violence. Letters, diaries, newspapers, and quantitative evidence illuminate how, in the absence of a compromise settlement, proslavery Unionists managed to defeat secession in the Border South.


Journal

Journal

Author: Kentucky. General Assembly. Senate

Publisher:

Published: 1850

Total Pages: 946

ISBN-13:

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