"Gentlemen of Property and Standing": Anti-Abolition Mobs in Jacksonian America

By Leonard L. Richards

Book Overview

Applying modern social science methods to the newspaper accouts, court records, and correspondence of the time, Mr. Richards reconstitutes these mobs, examines the pattern of their action, and defines the structure of prejudice in the ante-bellum North.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195013514
• ISBN13: 9780195013511
• Release Date: February 1971
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.4" x 5.3"