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PublisherBasic Books
ISBN-101541617789
ISBN-139781541617780
eBay Product ID (ePID)17050381709
Product Key Features
Book TitleSouth to Freedom : Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War
Number of Pages384 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2020
TopicLatin America / Mexico, United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), African American
GenreHistory
AuthorAlice L. Baumgartner
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.5 in
Item Weight20.8 Oz
Item Length9.6 in
Item Width6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition23
Reviews"The story of how Black people in a slaveholding society affected federal policy by their movements, by their defiance and by their very existence has been told before. But rarely has this story been told as compassionately, or rendered as beautifully....Masterfully researched....Baumgartner's important conclusion is that we must reconceive the impact of the supposedly powerless on the economically and politically powerful."-- The New York Times Book Review
Dewey Decimal306.362
SynopsisA brilliant and surprising account of the coming of the American Civil War, showing the crucial role of slaves who escaped to Mexico. The Underground Railroad to the North promised salvation to many American slaves before the Civil War. But thousands of people in the south-central United States escaped slavery not by heading north but by crossing the southern border into Mexico, where slavery was abolished in 1837. In South to Freedom, historian Alice L. Baumgartner tells the story of why Mexico abolished slavery and how its increasingly radical antislavery policies fueled the sectional crisis in the United States. Southerners hoped that annexing Texas and invading Mexico in the 1840s would stop runaways and secure slavery's future. Instead, the seizure of Alta California and Nuevo México upset the delicate political balance between free and slave states. This is a revelatory and essential new perspective on antebellum America and the causes of the Civil War.
