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South to Freedom

Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War

By: Alice L Baumgartner

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South to Freedom

Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War

By: Alice L Baumgartner

A brilliant and surprising account of the coming of the American Civil War, showing the crucial role of slaves who escaped to Mexico. The Underground Railroad to the North promised salvation to many American slaves before the Civil War. But thousands of people in the south-central United States escaped slavery not by heading north but by crossing the southern border into Mexico, where slavery was abolished in 1837. In South to Freedom, historianAlice L. Baumgartner tells the story of why Mexico abolished slavery and how its increasingly radical antislavery policies fueled the sectional crisis in the United States. Southerners hoped that annexing Texas and invading Mexico in the 1840s would stop runaways and secure slavery's future. Instead, the seizure of Alta California and Nuevo México upset the delicate political balance between free and slave states. This is a revelatory and essential new perspective on antebellum America and the causes of the Civil War.

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South to Freedom

Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War

By: Alice L Baumgartner

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Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War

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The History of Wisconsin, Volume I

From Exploration to Statehood

By: Alice E. Smith

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The History of Wisconsin, Volume I

From Exploration to Statehood

By: Alice E. Smith

Published in 1973, this first volume in the History of Wisconsin series remains the definitive work on Wisconsin's beginnings, from the arrival of the French explorer Jean Nicolet in 1634, to the attainment of statehood in 1848. This volume explores how Wisconsin's Native American inhabitants, early trappers, traders, explorers, and many immigrant groups paved the way for the territory to become a more permanent society. Including nearly two dozen maps as well as illustrations of territorial Wisconsin and portraits of early residents, this volume provides an in-depth history of the beginnings of the state.

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Wisconsin Historical Society Press

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0870201220

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9780870201226

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