Blind No More: African American Resistance, Free-Soil Politics, and the Coming of the Civil War - Mercer University Lamar Memorial Lectures

With a fresh interpretation of African American resistance to kidnapping and pre–Civil War political culture, Blind No More sheds new light on the coming of the Civil War by focusing on a neglected truism: the antebellum free states experienced a dramatic ideological shift that questioned the value of the Union.