Bleeding Borders: Race, Gender, and Violence in Pre-Civil War Kansas

by Kristen Tegtmeier Oertel

Book Overview

In Bleeding Borders, Kristen Tegtmeier Oertel offers a fresh, multifaceted interpretation of the quintessential sectional conflict in pre-Civil War Kansas. Instead of focusing on the white, male politicians and settlers who vied for control of the Kansas territorial legislature, Oertel explores the crucial roles Native Americans, African Americans, and white women played in the literal and rhetorical battle between proslavery and antislavery...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807152862
• ISBN13: 9780807152867
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"