Blind No More: African American Resistance, Free-Soil Politics, and the Coming of the Civil War

by Jonathan Wells

Book Overview

With a fresh interpretation of African American resistance to kidnapping and pre-Civil War political culture, Blind No More sheds new light on the coming of the Civil War by focusing on a neglected truism: the antebellum free states experienced a dramatic ideological shift that questioned the value of the Union. Jonathan Daniel Wells explores the cause of disunion as the persistent determination on the part of enslaved people that they would flee...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820354856
• ISBN13: 9780820354859
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"