South to freedom : runaway slaves to Mexico and the road to the Civil War
by Baumgartner, Alice, 1987- (Author)
Summary
"The Underground Railroad to the North was salvation for many US slaves before the Civil War. But during the same decades, thousands of people in the south-central United States escaped slavery not by heading north but by crossing the southern border into Mexico. In South to Freedom historian Alice... Full description
- Defending slavery
- The meaning of liberty
- The right to property
- An antislavery republic
- In accordance with the laws, they are free
- The Texas Revolution
- Annexation
- Compromise lost
- Liberty found
- The balance of power
- Citizenship
- War.