For God and Mammon Evangelicals and Entrepreneurs, Masters and Slaves in Territorial Kansas, 1854-60 |
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| Author:
| SenGupta, Gunja |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8203-1779-3 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 1996 |
| Publisher: | University of Georgia Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $48.95 |
Book Description:
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This work is unique in antebellum Kansas literature in that it employs census data in an attempt to reconstruct the reality of the rank-and-file lives--both slave and free, northern and southern, native-born and foreign--that lay behind the stirring public images conjured by "Bleeding Kansas."
This work is unique in antebellum Kansas literature in that it employs census data in an attempt to reconstruct the reality of the rank-and-file lives--both slave and free, northern and southern, native-born and foreign--that lay behind the stirring public images conjured by "Bleeding Kansas."