South to freedom runaway slaves to Mexico and the road to the Civil War
"The Underground Railroad to the North was salvation for many US slaves before the Civil War. But during the same decades, thousands of people in the south-central United States escaped slavery not by heading north but by crossing the southern border into Mexico. In South to Freedom historian A...
| Main Author: | Baumgartner, Alice, 1987- (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Basic Books,
2020.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Defending slavery
- The meaning of liberty
- The right to property
- An antislavery republic
- In accordance with the laws, they are free
- The Texas Revolution
- Annexation
- Compromise lost
- Liberty found
- The balance of power
- Citizenship
- War.