Border war : fighting over slavery before the Civil War / Stanley Harrold.
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TextSeries: Civil War AmericaPublication details: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2010.Description: xvi, 292 p. : ill., map ; 25 cmISBN: - 9780807834312 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0807834319 (cloth : alk. paper)
- Slavery -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Fugitive slaves -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States
- Slavery -- United States -- Legal status of slaves in free states
- Slavery -- Law and legislation -- United States
- Border States (U.S. Civil War)
- United States. Fugitive slave law (1850)
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Causes
- E449 .H2985 2010
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : perception of war -- Early clashes -- Fear and reaction in the border South -- Southern aggression in the lower North -- Interstate diplomacy -- Fighting against slavery in the lower North -- The struggle for the border South -- Fighting over the fugitive slave law -- Pressure on the border South increases -- From border war to Civil War.