"The cause of disunion was the persistent determination on the part of enslaved people that they would flee bondage no matter the risks. By protesting against kidnappings and fugitive slave renditions, they brought slavery to the doorstep of the free states, forcing those states to recognize the meaning of freedom and the meaning of states' rights in the face of a federal government equally determined to keep standing its divided house. In so doing African Americans helped northerners and westerners to question whether or ...
Read More
"The cause of disunion was the persistent determination on the part of enslaved people that they would flee bondage no matter the risks. By protesting against kidnappings and fugitive slave renditions, they brought slavery to the doorstep of the free states, forcing those states to recognize the meaning of freedom and the meaning of states' rights in the face of a federal government equally determined to keep standing its divided house. In so doing African Americans helped northerners and westerners to question whether or not the Constitutional compact was still worth upholding, a reevaluation of the republican experiment that would ultimately lead not just to Civil War, but to the 13th Amendment ending slavery. The real story of American freedom lay not with the Confederate Rebels or even with the Union Army, but instead rests with the tens of thousands of self-emancipated men and women who had to be the ones to demonstrate to the Founders and to succeeding generations of Americans the value of liberty"--
Read Less
Book Details
Seller
Sort
U.K./EUR Sellers
Price: Low to High
Price: High to Low
Condition
Condition: Reverse
Pub Date
Pub Date: Reverse
Sellers Near Me
Edition: 2021, University of Georgia Press
Paperback,
New
Details: ISBN:
0820360368
ISBN-13:
9780820360362
Publisher:
University of Georgia Press
Published:
2021
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
17439626155
Shipping Options: Standard Shipping: $4.70
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description: New.
Hide Details ▴
Edition: 2019, University of Georgia Press
Hardcover,
Very Good
Details: ISBN:
0820354856
ISBN-13:
9780820354859
Pages:
198
Publisher:
University of Georgia Press
Published:
2019
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
17962569736
Shipping Options: Standard Shipping: $4.70
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description: Very good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.
Hide Details ▴
Edition: 2019, University of Georgia Press
Hardcover,
Very Good
Details: ISBN:
0820354856
ISBN-13:
9780820354859
Pages:
198
Publisher:
University of Georgia Press
Published:
2019
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
18073628405
Shipping Options: Standard Shipping: $4.70
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description: No Dust Jacket as issued. No dust jacket. Very Good hardcover with light shelfwear-NICE! Standard-sized.
Hide Details ▴
Edition: 2021, University of Georgia Press
Paperback,
Good
Details: ISBN:
0820360368
ISBN-13:
9780820360362
Publisher:
University of Georgia Press
Published:
2021
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
18127762610
Shipping Options: Standard Shipping: $4.70
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description: Good. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.
Hide Details ▴
Edition: 2021, University of Georgia Press
Paperback,
Very Good
Details: ISBN:
0820360368
ISBN-13:
9780820360362
Publisher:
University of Georgia Press
Published:
2021
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
18073625979
Shipping Options: Standard Shipping: $4.70
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description: Very Good-Crisp, clean, unread book with some shelfwear/edgewear, may have a remainder mark-NICE PAPERBACK Standard-sized.
Hide Details ▴
Edition: 2021, University of Georgia Press
Paperback,
New
Available Copies: 5
Details: ISBN:
0820360368
ISBN-13:
9780820360362
Publisher:
University of Georgia Press
Published:
4/1/2021
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
18060074440
Shipping Options: Standard Shipping: $4.70
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description: New in New jacket. Blind No More: African American Resistance, Free-Soil Politics, and the Coming of the Civil War (Paperback or Softback)
Hide Details ▴
Edition: 2021, University of Georgia Press
Paperback,
New
Available Copies: 10+
Details: ISBN:
0820360368
ISBN-13:
9780820360362
Publisher:
University of Georgia Press
Published:
2021
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
16903067119
Shipping Options: Standard Shipping: $4.70
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description: New. Print on demand Mercer University Lamar Memorial Lectures Series . Intended for professional and scholarly audience.
Hide Details ▴
Edition: 2021, University of Georgia Press
Paperback,
New
Details: ISBN:
0820360368
ISBN-13:
9780820360362
Publisher:
University of Georgia Press
Published:
2021
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
16903789126
Shipping Options: Standard Shipping: $4.70
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description: New. Mercer University Lamar Memorial Lectures Series . Intended for professional and scholarly audience.
Hide Details ▴
Edition: 2019, University of Georgia Press
Hardcover,
Good
Details: ISBN:
0820354856
ISBN-13:
9780820354859
Pages:
198
Publisher:
University of Georgia Press
Published:
2019
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
17350403870
Shipping Options: Standard Shipping: $4.70
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description: Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.
Hide Details ▴
ISBN-13: 9780820360362
Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780820354859
Hardcover
All Editions of Blind No More: African American Resistance, Free-Soil Politics, and the Coming of the Civil War
Books by Jonathan Daniel Wells
