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03140aam a2200421 i 4500 001 F5024FEE0C2C11EAA2E5F95597128E48 003 SILO 005 20191121010049 008 180922s2019 gauaf b s001 0 eng c 010 $a 2018036509 020 $a 0820354856 020 $a 9780820354859 035 $a (OCoLC)1052875568 040 $a LBSOR/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d YDX $d BNG $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a E450 $b .W46 2019 100 1 $a Wells, Jonathan Daniel, $d 1969- $e author. 245 10 $a Blind no more : $b African American resistance, free-soil politics, and the coming of the Civil War / $c Jonathan Daniel Wells. 264 1 $a Athens, Georgia : $b The University of Georgia Press, $c [2019] 300 $a xv, 169 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : $b illustrations ; $c 23 cm. 490 1 $a Mercer University Lamar lectures ; $v no. 57 520 $a "The cause of disunion was the persistent determination on the part of enslaved people that they would flee bondage no matter the risks. By protesting against kidnappings and fugitive slave renditions, they brought slavery to the doorstep of the free states, forcing those states to recognize the meaning of freedom and the meaning of states' rights in the face of a federal government equally determined to keep standing its divided house. In so doing African Americans helped northerners and westerners to question whether or not the Constitutional compact was still worth upholding, a reevaluation of the republican experiment that would ultimately lead not just to Civil War, but to the 13th Amendment ending slavery. The real story of American freedom lay not with the Confederate Rebels or even with the Union Army, but instead rests with the tens of thousands of self-emancipated men and women who had to be the ones to demonstrate to the Founders and to succeeding generations of Americans the value of liberty"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a The long Civil War: kidnapping and black activists in the early republic -- The making of the Fugitive slave law and the sectional crisis -- Civil conflict in the north: reactions to the Fugitive slave law in the fall of 1850 -- Trying to save the Union: battles over the Fugitive slave law in the 1850s -- An end to compromise. 610 10 $a United States. $t Fugitive slave law (1850) 630 07 $a Fugitive slave law (United States : 1850) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01711721 650 0 $a Fugitive slaves $x Legal status, laws, etc. $z United States. 650 0 $a Slavery $x History $z United States $x History $y 19th century. 650 7 $a Fugitive slaves $x Legal status, laws, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00935943 650 7 $a Slavery $x Political aspects. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01120480 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 648 7 $a 1800-1899 $2 fast 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 830 0 $a Mercer University Lamar memorial lectures ; $v no. 57. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20200318013651.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=F5024FEE0C2C11EAA2E5F95597128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search