“There Is a North”: Fugitive Slaves, Political Crisis, and Cultural Transformation in the Coming of the Civil War

Authors

Kellen Heniford, Columbia UniversityFollow

ISBN

9781625344472

Publication Date

2019

Price

26.95

Publisher

University of Massachusetts Press

Abstract

John Brooke shows that "between 1850 and 1854, white northerners experienced fundamental political and cultural shifts that pushed enough of them towards an active antislavery politics that a conflagration with the slaveholding South became almost inevitable."

DOI

10.31390/cwbr.23.1.17

Recommended Citation

Heniford, Kellen (2021) "“There Is a North”: Fugitive Slaves, Political Crisis, and Cultural Transformation in the Coming of the Civil War," Civil War Book Review: Vol. 23 : Iss. 1 .
DOI: 10.31390/cwbr.23.1.17
Available at: https://repository.lsu.edu/cwbr/vol23/iss1/17