Sale!

Bonds of Union: Religion, Race, and Politics in a Civil War Borderland (Civil War America)

Amazon.com Price:  $36.47 (as of 19/04/2019 21:08 PST- Details)

Description

This vivid history of the Civil War era reveals how unexpected bonds of union forged among diverse peoples within the Ohio-Kentucky borderlands furthered emancipation through a period of spiraling chaos between 1830 and 1865. Moving beyond familiar arguments about Lincoln’s deft politics or regional commercial ties, Bridget Ford recovers the potent religious, racial, and political attachments holding the country together at one in all its possibly breaking points, the Ohio River.

Living in a bitterly contested region, the Americans examined here–Protestant and Catholic, black and white, northerner and southerner–made zealous efforts to take note the day by day lives and struggles of those at the opposite side of vexing human and ideological divides. Of their common pursuits of religious devotionalism, universal public education irrespective of race, and relief from suffering all through wartime, Ford discovers a surprisingly capacious and inclusive sense of political union within the Civil War era. Whilst accounting for the era’s many disintegrative forces, Ford reveals the imaginative work that went into bridging stark differences in lived experience, and she posits that work as a precondition for slavery’s end and the Union’s persistence.

Home » Shop » Books » Subjects » Arts and Photography » History and Criticism » History » Americas » United States » Civil War » Campaigns and Battlefields » Bonds of Union: Religion, Race, and Politics in a Civil War Borderland (Civil War America)

Recent Products