For Slavery and Union

For Slavery and Union
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Total Pages : 272
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ISBN-10 : 0813177510
ISBN-13 : 9780813177519
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Book Synopsis For Slavery and Union by : Patrick A. Lewis

Download or read book For Slavery and Union written by Patrick A. Lewis and published by . This book was released on 2018-11-30 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Benjamin F. Buckner (1836--1901) faced a dire choice as the flames of Civil War threatened his native Kentucky. As an ambitious Bluegrass aristocrat, he was sympathetic to fellow slave owners, but was also convinced that the Peculiar Institution could not survive a war for Southern independence. Buckner joined the Twentieth Kentucky Volunteer Infantry in 1861 as a Union soldier. President Lincoln's issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 ultimately destroyed Buckner's faith in his cause, however, and he resigned his commission. This book uses Buckner's story to illuminate the origins and perspectives of Kentucky's conservative proslavery Unionists, and explain why this group eventually became a key force in repressing social and political change during the Reconstruction era and beyond. Free from the constraints imposed on the former Confederate states, men like Buckner joined with other proslavery forces to work in the interest of the New South's brand of economic growth and racial control.


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