Marching as to war: an outpouring of new books addresses the divisions during and long after the Civil War.

Black Issues Book ReviewVol. 9 Nbr. 1, January 2007

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Marching as to war: an outpouring of new books addresses the divisions during and long after the Civil War.

IN THE CURRENT EXHIBIT "NEW YORK DIVIDED: SLAVERY AND THE Civil War," at the New-York Historical Society (November 2006-September 2007), the curators explore the state's "seemingly contradictory role as both a major center of the nation's abolitionist movement and a virtual 'Capital of the South,' with important commercial and political ties to Southern slavery."

At the beginning of the Civil War, in 1861, many states denied blacks--those flee and those still enslav...

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