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American Mobbing, 1828-1861: Toward Civil War

American Mobbing, 1828-1861: Toward Civil War

Grimsted, David

Hardcover

19th Century United States HistoryCivil War Period (1850-1877)General Parenting

ISBN10: 0195117077
ISBN13: 9780195117073
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: May 21 1998
Pages: 392
Weight: 1.54
Height: 1.08 Width: 6.51 Depth: 9.53
Language: English
American Mobbing, 1828-1861: Toward Civil War is a comprehensive history of mob violence related to sectional issues in antebellum America. David Grimsted argues that, though the issue of slavery provoked riots in both the North and the South, the riots produced two different reactions from authorities. In the South, riots against suspected abolitionists and slave insurrectionists were widely tolerated as a means of quelling anti-slavery sentiment. In the North, both pro-slavery riots attacking abolitionists and anti-slavery riots in support of fugitive slaves provoked reluctant but often effective riot suppression. Hundreds died in riots in both regions, but in the North, most deaths were caused by authorities, while in the South more than 90 percent of deaths were caused by the mobs themselves.

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