Bright Radical Star: Black Freedom and White Supremacy on the Hawkeye Frontier

by Robert Dykstra

Bright Radical Star traces the evolution of frontier Iowa from arguably the most racist free state in the antebellum Union to one of its most outspokenly egalitarian, linking these midwesterners' extraordinary collective behavior with the psychology and sociology of race relations. Diverse personalities from a variety of political cultures--Yankees and New Yorkers, Pennsylvanians and Ohioans, Southerners from Virginia and Maryland and North...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674081803
• ISBN13: 9780674081802
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.0" x 9.0"