Bonds of Union
Subtitle: Religion, Race, and Politics in a Civil War Borderland
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 424
ISBN-13: 9781469626222
Subjects: United states, history, civil war, 1861-1865
Description: This vivid history of the Civil War era reveals how unexpected bonds of union forged among diverse peoples in the Ohio-Kentucky borderlands furthered emanicipation through a period of spiraling chaos between 1830 and 1865. Moving beyond familiar arguments about Lincoln's deft politics or regional commercial ties, Bridge Ford recovers the potent religious, racial , and political attachments holding the country together at one of its most likely breaking points, the Ohio River. -- Provided by publisher.