- Title:
- Southern Heretics: The Republican Party in the Border South During the Civil War Era
- Creator:
- MacKay, James Allan Stuart
- Date Created:
- 2019
- Degree Awarded:
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Subjects:
- United States History
- Geographical Focus:
- US Maryland Kentucky Missouri
- Supporting Materials:
- n/a
- Description:
- This dissertation examines the emergence and establishment of the Republican Party in the Border South slave states of Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri during the Civil War era. As regional and national tensions over slavery began to consume American political life, Frank Blair and other likeminded antislavery leaders attempted to build a Republican organization within the Border South. This dissertation argues that to become a viable political alternative, Republicans in the Border South developed a particular ideology of liberal political antislavery. This ideology promoted a message of white supremacy and free white labor, and reinforced a desire to see the economic progress of their states untrammeled by slavery. As a result, this ideology attracted enough antislavery men to form the only viable contingent of Republicans in the southern slave states.
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- MacKay, James Allan Stuart. 2019. "Southern Heretics: The Republican Party in the Border South During the Civil War Era", Department of History, Carleton University
- Link to this page:
- https://cuhistory.github.io/grads/items/hist_21.html
Rights
- Rights:
- Copyright the author, all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.