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1 online resource |
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Introduction: unification and (re- )division: the significance of Massachusetts in the Civil War era -- Part I. The opposition to slavery -- The union of abolitionists and emancipationists in Civil War/era Massachusetts / John Stauffer -- "Constitution or no constitution, law or no law": the Boston Vigilance Committees, 1841-1861 / Dean Grodzins -- "Today abolitionist is merged in citizen": radical abolitionists and the union war / Peter Wirzbicki -- The rise and fall of the abolitionist republic / Richard S. Newman -- Part II. The war years -- The politics of unionism: Edward Everett, the Constitutional Union Party, and the election of 1860 / Matthew Mason -- McClellan in the hub: Boston's financiers and the war for emancipation / Carol Bundy -- The bonds of print: reading on home front and battlefield / Ronald J. Zboray and Mary Saracino Zboray -- Part III. Reconciliation -- Mourning Charles Sumner: the flag resolution and the complications of Civil War memory / Sarah Purcell -- Reporting from the south: Massachusetts teachers and freedmen's education / Amy F. Morsman -- The union of gentlemen restored: college-educated northern veterans, reconciliation, and northern honor / Kanisorn Wongsrichanalai |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)
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HISTORY -- United States -- Civil War Period (1850-1877)
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United States - General.
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Regions & Countries - Americas.
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History & Archaeology.
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| SUBJECT |
Massachusetts -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85081935
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| Subject |
Massachusetts
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Viens, Katheryn P., 1962-
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Wright, Conrad Edick
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Mason, Matthew, 1968-
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| ISBN |
9781613763575 |
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1613763573 |
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