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Through the 1840s and 1850s, a dangerous ferment afflicted the North-South boundary region, pitting the slave says of Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky, and Missouri against the free says of NJ, Pa, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. Aspects of this struggle - the underground railroad, enforcement of the fugitive slave regulations, mob activities, and sectional politics - are popular as parts of other testimonies. Here, Stanley Harrold explores the boundary struggle itself, the remarkable incidents that this comprised, and its own role in the intricate dynamics resulting in the Civil Conflict. Border Conflict examines the recently neglected cross-border clash of attitudes and traditions going out with many generations back. With the mid-nineteenth century, nowhere else were tensions increased between antislavery and proslavery hobbies. Nowhere else was there more direct conflict between the makes binding North and South along and those travelling them apart. There were mass slave escapes, fights between antislavery and proslavery vigilantes, and brutal resistance in the Border North to the kidnapping of free African Americans. There were also fights throughout the borderlands between fugitive slaves and the ones wanting to apprehend them. Harrold argues that, through the 1850s, warfare on the Kansas-Missouri lines and John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia, were manifestations of a far more pervasive border discord that helped drive the Lower South into secession and helped persuade almost all of the Border South to stand by the Union.
