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Bonds of Union
Bridget Ford
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The University of North Carolina Press 
Sachbuch / 20. Jahrhundert (bis 1945)
Beschreibung
This vivid history of the Civil War era reveals how unexpected bonds of union forged among diverse peoples in 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 of its most likely 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 understand the daily lives and struggles of those on the opposite side of vexing human and ideological divides. In their common pursuits of religious devotionalism, universal public education regardless of race, and relief from suffering during wartime, Ford discovers a surprisingly capacious and inclusive sense of political union in the Civil War era. While 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.
Kundenbewertungen
Unionism in Kentucky, Abraham Lincoln and the border states, Cincinnati, Ohio, Enlightenment, urban history in the antebellum era, history of education, Order of Friars Minor (Franciscans), Second Great Awakening, emancipation movement in Kentucky, border states, nativism, Presbyterians, antebellum religious and racial violence, history of idea of union, African Americans in the antebellum era, popular religion, Civil War, oratory, borderlands, Lyman Beecher, millennialism, antislavery movements in Kentucky and Ohio, immigration, anti-Catholicism, Lane Seminary, Baptists, Civil War era, preaching, Reformation and Counter-Reformation ideologies, revivalism, United States Constitution, federalism, Louisville, Kentucky, Methodists, Ohio River Valley in the Civil War era, race