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American Mobbing, 1828-1861: Toward Civil War

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American Mobbing, 1828-1861: Toward Civil War is a comprehensive history of mob violence related to sectional issues in antebellum The us. David Grimsted argues that, though the problem of slavery provoked riots in both the North and the South, the riots produced two different reactions from authorities. In the South, riots against suspected abolitionists and slave insurrectionists were widely tolerated as a means of quelling anti-slavery sentiment. In the North, both pro-slavery riots attacking abolitionists and anti-slavery riots in toughen of fugitive slaves provoked reluctant but frequently effective rebel suppression. Hundreds died in riots in both regions, but in the North, most deaths were caused by authorities, whilst in the South more than 90 percent of deaths were caused by the mobs themselves.
These two divergent systems of violence led to two distinct public responses. In the South, widespread rioting quelled private and non-private questioning of slavery; in the North, the milder, more controlled riots usually encouraged sympathy for the anti-slavery movement. Grimsted demonstrates that in these two distinct reactions to mob violence, we will see major origins of the social split that infiltrated politics and political rioting and that in the long run led to the Civil War.

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