South to Freedom Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War
South to Freedom Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War
- ISBN 13:
9781541617766
- ISBN 10:
1541617762
- Format: Paperback
- Copyright: 12/06/2022
- Publisher: Basic Books
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Summary
A “gripping and poignant” (Wall Street Journal) account of the coming of the American Civil War, showing the crucial role of slaves who escaped to Mexico
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, prize-winning 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. This is an essential new perspective on antebellum America and the causes of the Civil War.
Winner of the Ralph Waldo Emerson Award
Winner of the California Book Award for Nonfiction
Winner of the Caughey Western History Prize
Winner of the Willie Lee Rose Prize
Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Nonfiction
Finalist for the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize
Finalist for the California Independent Booksellers Alliance’s Golden Poppy Award