"There Is a North": Fugitive Slaves, Political Crisis, and Cultural Transformation in the Coming of the Civil War

by John L Brooke

Book Overview

How does political change take hold? In the 1850s, politicians and abolitionists despaired, complaining that the "North, the poor timid, mercenary, driveling North" offered no forceful opposition to the power of the slaveholding South. And yet, as John L. Brooke proves, the North did change. Inspired by brave fugitives who escaped slavery and the cultural craze that was Uncle Tom's Cabin, the North rose up to battle slavery, ultimately waging...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1625344473
• ISBN13: 9781625344472
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 442 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher