South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War by Baumgartner, Alice L.

South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War

A brilliant and surprising account of the coming of the American Civil War, showing the crucial role...
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Author: Alice L. Baumgartner
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Language: English
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South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War by Baumgartner, Alice L.

South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War

€45,43

South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War

€45,43
Author: Alice L. Baumgartner
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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, historian Alice 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.

Author: Alice L. Baumgartner
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 11/10/2020
Pages: 384
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.30w x 1.50d
ISBN: 9781541617780


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 09/28/2020
Kirkus Reviews 10/01/2020
Library Journal 11/01/2020 pg. 94
Shelf Awareness 11/20/2020

About the Author
Alice L. Baumgartner is assistant professor of history at the University of Southern California. She received an MPhil in history from Oxford, where she was a Rhodes scholar, and a PhD in history from Yale University. She lives in Los Angeles, California.

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