Fifth Border State: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Formation of West Virginia, 1829-1872

by Scott A. MacKenzie

One of the first new interpretations of West Virginia's origins in over a century--and one that corrects previous histories' tendency to minimize support for slavery in the state's founding.

Every history of West Virginia's creation in 1863 explains the event in similar ways: at the start of the Civil War, political, social, cultural, and economic differences with eastern Virginia motivated the northwestern counties to resist secession...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1952271711
• ISBN13: 9781952271717
• Release Date: January 2023
• Publisher: West Virginia University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 8.6"