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Machine generated contents note: -- List of Illustrations -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction: "The Civil War on the Kansas-Missouri Border" / Jonathan Earle and Diane Mutti Burke -- "I Came Not to Bring Peace, but a Sword": The Christian War God and the War of All against All on the Kansas-Missouri Border / Michael Fellman -- Part I. Slavery and Politics of Law and Order along the Border -- Before the Border Wars: Slavery and the Settlement of the Western Frontier, 1825-1845 / Kristen K. Epps -- The Goose Question: The Proslavery Party in Territorial Kansas and the "Crisis in Law and Order" / Nicole Etcheson -- "Nigger-worshipping fanatics" and "villain[s] of the blackest dye": Racialized Manhoods and the Sectional Debates / Kristen Tegtmeier Oertel -- "The Noise of Democracy:" The Lecompton Constitution in Congress and Kansas / Pearl Ponce -- Part II: Making the Border Bleed -- The Illusion of Security: The Governments' Response to the Jayhawker Threat of Late 1860 / Tony R. Mullis -- 'If I Went West, I Think I Would Go To Kansas': Abraham Lincoln, the Sunflower State, and the Election of 1860 / Jonathan Earle -- "A Question of Power Not One of Law": Federal Occupation and the Politics of Loyalty in the Western Border Slave States during the American Civil War" / Christopher Phillips -- "Slavery Dies Hard": Enslaved Missourians' Struggle for Freedom / Diane Mutti Burke -- The Guerrilla Shirt: A Labor of Love and the Style of Rebellion in Civil War Missouri / Joseph M. Beilein Jr. -- Part III: The Border War Reconstructed and Remembered -- The Lexington Weekly Caucasian: White Supremacist Discourse in post-Civil War Western Missouri / Aaron Astor -- Black Suffrage Activism and the Limits of Loyalty in Reconstruction Missouri / John W. McKerley -- "A Little Different than in Alabama": Sectional Narratives and the Rhetoric of Racist Violence / Brent M.S. Campney -- The Quantrill Men Reunions: The Missouri-Kansas Border War, Fifty Years On / Jeremy Neely -- "William Quantrill Is My Homeboy," Or, The Border War Goes to College / Jennifer L. Weber -- List of Contributors -- Notes -- Index. |
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9780700620289 (electronic bk.) |
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0700620281 (electronic bk.) |
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9780700619283 |
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0700619283 |
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9780700619290 |
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0700619291 |
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40022749151 |
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