American Mobbing, 1828-1861 : Toward Civil War.

By: Grimsted, DavidMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: Cary : Oxford University Press, 1998Copyright date: ©1998Description: 1 online resource (393 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781602562363Subject(s): Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century | Riots -- United States -- History -- 19th century | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Causes | United States -- Race relations | United States -- Social conditions -- To 1865 | Violence -- United States -- History -- 19th centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: American Mobbing, 1828-1861 : Toward Civil WarDDC classification: 303.6/23/097309034 LOC classification: E415.7 -- .G75 1998ebOnline resources: Click to View
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- PART I. THE NORTH: FLEEING SLAVERY, TRYING VIOLENCE -- Chapter 1: 1835: Year of Violent Indecision -- Chapter 2: Riots Hatching Resistance: Against Abolitionists and in Aid of Fugitive Slaves -- PART II. THE SOUTH: ASSERTING MASTERY, TERRORIZING DOUBT -- Chapter 3: The Peculiar Institution of Southern Violence -- Chapter 4: White Fears: Silencing Questions -- Chapter 5: Black Fears: Mastering Dark Realities -- PART III. THE NATION: POLITICAL AFFRAYS AND FRAYING -- Chapter 6: Times That Tried Men's Bodies: The Manly Sport of American Politics -- Chapter 7: The Mobs of the Second Party System -- Chapter 8: Trying to Forget Slavery: Nativism and New Riots -- Chapter 9: Bleeding Majoritarianism: The Sectional Mob Systems Meet, Mingle, and Mangle -- Epilogue: Vintage Violence -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Summary: American Mobbing, 1828-1861: Toward Civil War is a comprehensive history of mob violence related to sectional issues in antebellum America. David Grimsted argues that, though the issue of slavery provoked riots in both the North and the South, the riots produced two different reactions from authorities. In the South, riots against suspected abolitionists and slave insurrectionists were widely tolerated as a means of quelling anti-slavery sentiment. In the North, both pro-slavery riots attacking abolitionists and anti-slavery riots in support of fugitive slaves provoked reluctant but often effective riot suppression. Hundreds died in riots in both regions, but in the North, most deaths were caused by authorities, while in the South more than 90 percent of deaths were caused by the mobs themselves. These two divergent systems of violence led to two distinct public responses. In the South, widespread rioting quelled public and private questioning of slavery; in the North, the milder, more controlled riots generally encouraged sympathy for the anti-slavery movement. Grimsted demonstrates that in these two distinct reactions to mob violence, we can see major origins of the social split that infiltrated politics and political rioting and that ultimately led to the Civil War.
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Intro -- Contents -- PART I. THE NORTH: FLEEING SLAVERY, TRYING VIOLENCE -- Chapter 1: 1835: Year of Violent Indecision -- Chapter 2: Riots Hatching Resistance: Against Abolitionists and in Aid of Fugitive Slaves -- PART II. THE SOUTH: ASSERTING MASTERY, TERRORIZING DOUBT -- Chapter 3: The Peculiar Institution of Southern Violence -- Chapter 4: White Fears: Silencing Questions -- Chapter 5: Black Fears: Mastering Dark Realities -- PART III. THE NATION: POLITICAL AFFRAYS AND FRAYING -- Chapter 6: Times That Tried Men's Bodies: The Manly Sport of American Politics -- Chapter 7: The Mobs of the Second Party System -- Chapter 8: Trying to Forget Slavery: Nativism and New Riots -- Chapter 9: Bleeding Majoritarianism: The Sectional Mob Systems Meet, Mingle, and Mangle -- Epilogue: Vintage Violence -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

American Mobbing, 1828-1861: Toward Civil War is a comprehensive history of mob violence related to sectional issues in antebellum America. David Grimsted argues that, though the issue of slavery provoked riots in both the North and the South, the riots produced two different reactions from authorities. In the South, riots against suspected abolitionists and slave insurrectionists were widely tolerated as a means of quelling anti-slavery sentiment. In the North, both pro-slavery riots attacking abolitionists and anti-slavery riots in support of fugitive slaves provoked reluctant but often effective riot suppression. Hundreds died in riots in both regions, but in the North, most deaths were caused by authorities, while in the South more than 90 percent of deaths were caused by the mobs themselves. These two divergent systems of violence led to two distinct public responses. In the South, widespread rioting quelled public and private questioning of slavery; in the North, the milder, more controlled riots generally encouraged sympathy for the anti-slavery movement. Grimsted demonstrates that in these two distinct reactions to mob violence, we can see major origins of the social split that infiltrated politics and political rioting and that ultimately led to the Civil War.

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