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Northborough in the Civil War
Robert P. Ellis
其他書名
Citizen Soldiering and Sacrifice
出版Arcadia Publishing, 2007-06-30
主題History / United States / State & Local / GeneralHistory / United States / State & Local / New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)History / United States / General
ISBN16142349579781614234951
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=4RF_CQAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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 towns best and brightest joined the fray, and this vigorous anti-slavery activity demands attention: were towns like Northboroughwelcoming of abolitionists and strongly involved in the fightinstrumental in changing the outcome via an emancipation that had to be proclaimed mid-war?