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Bleeding Kansas, Bleeding Missouri: The Long Civil War on the Border
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Overview
Bleeding Kansas, Bleeding Missouri blends political, military, social, and intellectual history to explain why the region's divisiveness was so bitter and persisted for so long. Providing a more nuanced understanding of the conflict, it defines both what united and divided the men and women who lived there and how various political disagreements ultimately disintegrated into violence. By focusing on contested definitions of liberty, citizenship, and freedom, it also explores how civil societies break down and how they are reconstructed when the conflict ends.
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 the conflict over the status of slavery in Kansas Territory and how the emerging conflict on the Kansas-Missouri border took on a larger national significance. Other essays focus on the transition to total warfare and examine the wartime experiences of the diverse people who populated the region in "Making the Border Bleed." Final articles on "The Border Reconstructed and Remembered" explore the ways in which border residents rebuilt their society after the war and how they remembered it decades later.
As this penetrating collection shows, only when Missourians and Kansans embraced a common vision for America—one based on shared agricultural practices, ideas about economic development, and racial equality—could citizens on both sides of the border reconcile.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780700619283 |
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Publisher: | University Press of Kansas |
Publication date: | 08/20/2013 |
Pages: | 360 |
Product dimensions: | 5.00(w) x 7.70(h) x 1.30(d) |
About the Author
Table of Contents
List of IllustrationsPreface and Acknowledgments
Introduction: “The Civil War on the Kansas-Missouri Border,” Jonathan Earle and Diane Mutti Burke
1. “I Came Not to Bring Peace, but a Sword”: The Christian War God and the War of All against All on the Kansas-Missouri Border, Michael Fellman
Part I. Slavery and Politics of Law and Order on the Border
2. Before the Border Wars: Slavery and the Settlement of the Western Frontier, 1825-1845, Kristen K. Epps
3. The Goose Question: The Proslavery Party in Territorial Kansas and the “Crisis in Law and Order,” Nicole Etcheson
4. “Nigger-worshipping fanatics” and “villain[s] of the blackest dye”: Racialized Manhoods and the Sectional Debates, Kristen Tegtmeier Oertel
5. “The Noise of Democracy”: The Lecompton Constitution in Congress and Kansas, Pearl Ponce
Part II: Making the Border Bleed
6. The Illusion of Security: The Governments’ Response to the Jayhawker Threat of Late 1860, Tony R. Mullis
7. ‘If I Went West, I Think I Would Go To Kansas’: Abraham Lincoln, the Sunflower State, and the Election of 1860, Jonathan Earle
8. “A Question of Power Not One of Law”: Federal Occupation and the Politics of Loyalty in the Western Border Slave States during the American Civil War, Christopher Phillips
9.“Slavery Dies Hard”: Enslaved Missourians’ Struggle for Freedom, Diane Mutti Burke
10. The Guerrilla Shirt: A Labor of Love and the Style of Rebellion in Civil War Missouri, Joseph M. Beilein Jr.
Part III: The Border War Reconstructed and Remembered
11. The Lexington Weekly Caucasian: White Supremacist Discourse in post-Civil War Western Missouri, Aaron Astor
12. Black Suffrage Activism and the Limits of Loyalty in Reconstruction Missouri, John W. McKerley
13. “A Little Different than in Alabama”: Sectional Narratives and the Rhetoric of Racist Violence, Brent M.S. Campney
14. The Quantrill Men Reunions: The Missouri-Kansas Border War, Fifty Years On, Jeremy Neely
15. “William Quantrill Is My Homeboy,” Or, The Border War Goes to College, Jennifer L. Weber
Notes
List of Contributors
Index