Bloody Dawn: The Christiana Riot and Racial Violence in the Antebellum North - Tapa blanda

Slaughter, Thomas P.

 
9780195046342: Bloody Dawn: The Christiana Riot and Racial Violence in the Antebellum North

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A compelling analysis of racial violence in pre-Civil War America as seen through the prism of the September 1851 riot in Christiana, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania....Slaughter...is a very good storyteller....He neatly weaves together the threads of local, regional, and national crises to offer a persuasive account of the importance of the Christiana Riot in the coming Civil War...An eloquent and insightful story that is respectful of the past, yet speaks to our present concerns with clarity and conviction.

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Author of The Whiskey Rebellion (OUP/USA 1986)

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A compelling analysis of racial violence in pre-Civil War America as seen through the prism of the September 1851 riot in Christiana, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania....Slaughter...is a very good storyteller....He neatly weaves together the threads of local, regional, and national crises to offer a persuasive account of the importance of the Christiana Riot in the coming Civil War...An eloquent and insightful story that is respectful of the past, yet speaks to our present concerns with clarity and conviction.

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9780195046335: Bloody Dawn

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ISBN 10:  0195046331 ISBN 13:  9780195046335
Editorial: Oxford University Press Inc, 1991
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