South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War

Name: South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War
Author: Alice L. Baumgartner
ISBN: 9781541617773

Alice L. Baumgartner

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South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War

Alice L. Baumgartner

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The Underground Railroad to the North promised salvation to many American slaves before the Civil War. But thousands of people in the south-central United States escaped slavery not by heading north but by crossing the southern border into Mexico, where slavery was abolished in 1837. In South to Freedom, historian Alice L. Baumgartner tells the story of why Mexico abolished slavery and how its increasingly radical antislavery policies fueled the sectional crisis in the United States. Southerners hoped that annexing Texas and invading Mexico in the 1840s would stop runaways and secure slavery's future. Instead, the seizure of Alta California and Nuevo México upset the delicate political balance between free and slave states.

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