American Mobbing, 1828-1861 Toward Civil War
, by Grimsted, David
- ISBN: 9780195172812 | 0195172817
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 9/25/2003
This history of mob violence in antebellum America explores the two distinct reactions such violence produced. In the South, widespread rioting quelled both the public and private questioning of slavery; in the North, milder, more controlled riots generally encouraged sympathy for the anti-slavery movement. Grimsted shows that in these opposing reactions we can clearly see traces of the social division that ultimately led to the Civil War.
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