An edition of American Mobbing, 1828-1861 (1998)

American mobbing, 1828-1861

toward Civil War

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An edition of American Mobbing, 1828-1861 (1998)

American mobbing, 1828-1861

toward Civil War

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"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.".

"These two divergent systems of violence led to two distinct public responses. In the South, widespread rioting quelled public and private questioning of slavery; in the North, the milder, more controlled riots generally encouraged sympathy for the anti-slavery movement. Grimsted demonstrates that in these two distinct reactions to mob violence lay major sources of the social split that infiltrated politics and political rioting and that ultimately led to the Civil War."--BOOK JACKET.

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372

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American Mobbing, 1828-1861: Toward Civil War (United States)
December 5, 2003, Oxford University Press, USA
in English
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American mobbing, 1828-1861: toward Civil War
1998, Oxford University Press
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
303.6/23/097309034
Library of Congress
E415.7 .G75 1998, E415.7.G75 1998

The Physical Object

Pagination
xx, 372 p. ;
Number of pages
372

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL686163M
Internet Archive
americanmobbing100grim
ISBN 10
0195117077
LCCN
97033073
OCLC/WorldCat
37588399
Library Thing
161520
Goodreads
1755945

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Angry differences between the people of the North and South had never been so much in the fore as they were by August 1835, but on one thing observers on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line agreed: since early July the nation had demonstrated a penchant for riotous violence that raised doubts about its future stability.
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