Massachusetts and the Civil War : the commonwealth and national disunion

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Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Introduction: unification and (re- )division: the significance of Massachusetts in the Civil War era -- Part I. The opposition to slavery -- The union of abolitionists and emancipationists in Civil War/era Massachusetts / John Stauffer -- "Constitution or no constitution, law or no law": the Boston Vigilance Committees, 1841-1861 / Dean Grodzins -- "Today abolitionist is merged in citizen": radical abolitionists and the union war / Peter Wirzbicki -- The rise and fall of the abolitionist republic / Richard S. Newman -- Part II. The war years -- The politics of unionism: Edward Everett, the Constitutional Union Party, and the election of 1860 / Matthew Mason -- McClellan in the hub: Boston's financiers and the war for emancipation / Carol Bundy -- The bonds of print: reading on home front and battlefield / Ronald J. Zboray and Mary Saracino Zboray -- Part III. Reconciliation -- Mourning Charles Sumner: the flag resolution and the complications of Civil War memory / Sarah Purcell -- Reporting from the south: Massachusetts teachers and freedmen's education / Amy F. Morsman -- The union of gentlemen restored: college-educated northern veterans, reconciliation, and northern honor / Kanisorn Wongsrichanalai.
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