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The Frontier against Slavery. Western Anti-Negro Prejudice and the Slavery Extension Controversy.
Eugene H. Berwanger
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Paperback. Attributes the social and political climates of the states and territories Ohio River Valley pioneers settled before 1860 to racial prejudice. This title draws from newspaper accounts and speeches and reveals that the whites-only sentiments of the pioneers, rather than humanitarian concern for African Americans, limited the expansion of slavery. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5334 x 3556 x 14. Weight in Grams: 260.
Eugene H. Berwanger's study of anti-slavery sentiment in the antebellum West is as resoundingly important now, in a new paperback edition, as when first published in 1967. In The Frontier against Slavery, Berwanger attributes the social and political climates of the states and territories Ohio River Valley pioneers settled before 1860 to racial prejudice.
Drawing from newspaper accounts, political speeches, correspondence, and legal documents, Berwanger reveals that the whites-only sentiments of the pioneers, rather than humanitarian concern for African Americans, limited the expansion of slavery. This whites-only prejudice shaped laws in the majority of western states and ... Read more
Eugene H. Berwanger's study of anti-slavery sentiment in the antebellum West is as resoundingly important now, in a new paperback edition, as when first published in 1967. In The Frontier against Slavery, Berwanger attributes the social and political climates of the states and territories Ohio River Valley pioneers settled before 1860 to racial prejudice.
Drawing from newspaper accounts, political speeches, correspondence, and legal documents, Berwanger reveals that the whites-only sentiments of the pioneers, rather than humanitarian concern for African Americans, limited the expansion of slavery. This whites-only prejudice shaped laws in the majority of western states and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252070563
SKU
V9780252070563
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Reviews for The Frontier against Slavery. Western Anti-Negro Prejudice and the Slavery Extension Controversy.
ADVANCE PRAISE "This is one of those books which reminds us with force and evidence that there is a considerable difference between myth and fact."
Philip Durham, Western American Literature "State by state, citing editorials, speeches, private letters, statutes, and constitutions, Berwanger reveals that the whites of the West deemed the Negro to be an inherently inferior ... Read more
Philip Durham, Western American Literature "State by state, citing editorials, speeches, private letters, statutes, and constitutions, Berwanger reveals that the whites of the West deemed the Negro to be an inherently inferior ... Read more