Crusade against slavery [electronic resource] : Edward Coles, pioneer of freedom / Kurt E. Leichtle and Bruce G. Carveth.
Publication details: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c2011.Description: xi, 268 p. : ill., portsISBN:- 9780809330423 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0809330423 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0809389444 (ebook)
- 9780809389940 (e-book)
- Coles, Edward, 1786-1868
- Governors -- Illinois -- Biography
- Slavery -- Illinois -- History
- Slaves -- Emancipation -- Illinois -- History
- Freedmen -- Illinois -- Biography
- African Americans -- Illinois -- Biography
- Illinois -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century
- Illinois -- Politics and government -- To 1865
- 977.3/03092 B 22
- F545.C695 L44 2011eb
eBooks
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Dust in the balance" : an introduction -- River and opportunity -- Man of property -- Release -- Beginning -- A rough land of great promise -- Contest and convention -- A prairie firestorm -- The chasm -- The complaint -- The emancipator -- The devastating truth of Madison's will -- The aging historian -- The preacher -- Prodigal Virginian -- The woodlands.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.