The Fifth Border State: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Formation of West Virginia, 1829–1872 by Scott A. MacKenzie
The Fifth Border State: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Formation of West Virginia, 1829–1872

Scott A. MacKenzie

The Fifth Border State: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Formation of West Virginia, 1829–1872

Scott A. MacKenzie

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One of the first new interpretations of West Virginia's origins in over a century--and one that corrects previous histories' tendency to minimize support for slavery in the state's founding. Every history of West Virginia's creation in 1863 expla...

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