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The Iron Furnace; Or, Slavery And Secession

The Iron Furnace; Or, Slavery And Secession

H. Aughey, John

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Military BiographiesMythology & Folklore20th Century United States History

ISBN10: 9354500978
ISBN13: 9789354500978
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Mar 22 2021
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.99
Height: 0.68 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Missouri was a tinderbox in 1861. John H. Aughey stood inside it. It burns on the page. The Iron Furnace; Or, Slavery And Secession is a gripping civil war memoir and abolitionist autobiography from the 1860s United States, written by a Unionist voice in a Missouri border state where loyalties fractured families and communities. Aughey records the moral pressure of slavery and secession and the lived cost of unionism in Missouri, including the shadow of civil war imprisonment, with the urgency of someone arguing for the nation as well as for the enslaved. It is spare, personal, and argumentative; part testimony, part warning, and always attentive to the choices ordinary citizens made when the Union splintered in public and private. For readers drawn to the Frederick Douglass narrative or Uncle Tom's Cabin readers seeking the next essential testimony, this is a direct, human account of conscience under siege, presented as a complete unabridged edition. Historically, Aughey's narrative captures how the conflict played out beyond the great battlefields: in churches, towns, and disputed homes, where ideology became immediate danger. For civil war research, it is a primary witness text that many treat as an annotated primary source, a doorway into local Unionism, emancipation debates, and the tangled politics of a border society. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions, it has been restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint - a collector's item and a cultural treasure for classic-history shelves and new readers alike.

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