| Northborough in the Civil War:: Citizen Soldiering and Sacrifice Contributor(s): Ellis, Robert P. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1596292202 ISBN-13: 9781596292208 Publisher: History Press OUR PRICE: $19.79 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2007 Annotation: Northborough sent over half of its eligible population into this war. This book attempts to bring to life as many of these people as possible. The people of Northborough, Massachusetts played an important role in the Civil War. The war began in response to an armed internal rebellion?the result of two opposed social systems. At the heart was a dispute over slavery that had been steadily and intensively scrutinized for thirty years?particularly in New England. In 1848 in Worcester County, Massachusetts, the Free Soil candidate for the presidency polled more votes than either candidate of the two major parties, Whig and Democrat. In Northborough, former president Martin Van Buren, the Free Soil nominee, received nearly three times as many votes as the winner, Zachary Taylor. These figures do not prove Northborough was a hotbed of abolitionists, but they do suggest that its vigorous anti-slavery activity demands preliminary attention. The South suspected the later Republican oppositio |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - State & Local - New England (ct, Ma, Me, Nh, Ri, Vt) |
| Dewey: 974.430 |
| LCCN: 2007010099 |
| Physical Information: 0.36" H x 6.2" W x 9.18" (0.62 lbs) 128 pages |
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| Publisher Description: A small town in the center of Massachusetts seems an unlikely place for altering the tide of war and public opinion, but the town of Northborough played just such a role. Slavery had already sparked the War Between the States, but abolition was not the majority view. Abolitionists on both sides of the Mason-Dixon Line gave their lives for change, perhaps nowhere more passionately than in Northborough. More than half of the town's best and brightest joined the fray, and this vigorous anti-slavery activity demands attention: were towns like Northborough--welcoming of abolitionists and strongly involved in the fight--instrumental in changing the outcome via an emancipation that had to be proclaimed mid-war? |