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Baltimore Riot
Border South
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Civil War
Compromise efforts during the secession winter
Conservative politics
Constitutional Union Party
Crittenden Compromise
Delaware
Douglas Democrats
Edward Bates
Election of
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Fort Sumter
Franklin Buchanan
Fremont Proclamation
Harpers Ferry Raid
Henry Clay
Henry Winter Davis
James Asheton Bayard
John C. Fremont
John Jordan Crittenden
John Pendleton Kennedy
Kentucky
Maryland
Missouri
Moderate politics
Neutrality during the Civil War
Politics of slavery
Pratt Street Riot
Proslavery Unionism
Republican Party
Secession crisis
Severn Teackle Wallis
Slavery in the Border South
St. Louis Riot
The political middle ground
Thirty-sixth Congress
Washington Peace Conference
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- ISBN 9781469666082
- Weight: 468g
- Dimensions: 155 x 233mm
- Publication Date: 30 Aug 2021
- Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
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.
Michael D. Robinson is assistant professor of history at the University of Mobile.
