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Chargement... Bleeding Kansas: Contested Liberty in the Civil War Erapar Nicole Etcheson
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. This monograph examines the conflicts in the Kansas territory during the 1850s through the prism of political activism. Essentially, Etcheson's goal is to analyse what the rhetoric of "popular sovereignty" meant in practice, and how it could not be a universal solvent for the dichotomy between the traditional rights of slaveholders and the rights of the "Free State" partisans who mostly wanted to be free of the presence of African-Americans; the irony being that said conflict helped grease the path to black emancipation. Note that this book emphasizes political maneuvering as much as violent social conflict; though there's more than enough of the second documented. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
"Bleeding Kansas is a gripping account of events and people - rabble-rousing Jim Lane, zealot John Brown, Sheriff Sam Jones, and others - that examines the social milieu of the settlers along with the political ideas they developed. Covering the period from the 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act to the 1879 Exoduster migration, it traces the complex interactions among groups inside and outside the territory, creating a comprehensive political, social, and intellectual history of this tumultuous period in the state's history."--Jacket. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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It would be interesting to figure out what changed people’s minds (well, what changed white people’s minds). My personal guess – I have no scholarly documentation, it’s just an opinion – was encounters with black people as they fled from Missouri before the Civil War, then more exposure during the war itself. The first black troops were enrolled in Kansas (unofficially; as state militia - the First Kansas Colored Volunteer Infantry). Kansas had more Civil War mortality per capita than any Union state, so they had plenty of opportunity, so w troops had plenty of opportunity to notice that that a black man could stop a Minie bullet just as well as a white man and that the blood that came out of the wound was the same color as theirs.
Well documented – the references are about a quarter of the book. I would have appreciated some tables to keep track of the various constitutions and what they contained, but I’m something of a freak about that. Photographs and engravings of the interested parties and locations. Not a quick or easy read but the subject is complicated. For more, see the reference above, Civil War on the Western Border and The Civil War in Kansas. ( )