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Texas terror : the slave insurrection panic of 1860 and the secession of the lower South / Donald E. Reynolds.
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Reynolds, Donald E., 1931-
- Series:
- Conflicting worlds
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Slave rebellions--Texas--History--19th century.
- Slave rebellions.
- Panic--Social aspects--Texas--History--19th century.
- Panic.
- Antislavery movements--Texas--History--19th century.
- Antislavery movements.
- Slavery--Texas--History--19th century.
- Slavery.
- Secession.
- History.
- Social conditions.
- Vigilance committees.
- Race relations.
- Social aspects.
- Texas--Race relations--History--19th century.
- Texas.
- Vigilance committees--Texas--History--19th century.
- Texas--Social conditions--19th century.
- Slave rebellions--Political aspects--Texas--History--19th century.
- Texas--Politics and government--1846-1865.
- Politics and government.
- Secession--Texas.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 237 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2007]
- Summary:
- On July 8, 1860, fire destroyed the entire business section of Dallas, Texas. At about the same time, two other fires damaged towns near Dallas. Early reports indicated that spontaneous combustion was the cause of the blazes, but Charles Pryor, editor of the Dallas Herald, wrote letters to editors of pro-Democratic newspapers, alleging that the fires were the result of a vast abolitionist conspiracy, the purpose of which was to devastate northern Texas and free its slaves. White preachers from the North, he asserted, had recruited local slaves to set the fires, murder the white men of their region, and rape their wives and daughters. These sensational allegations set off a panic of unprecedented proportions that extended throughout Texas and beyond. In Texas Terror, Reynolds offers a deft analysis of these events and illuminates the ways in which this fictionalized conspiracy determined the course of southern secession immediately before the Civil War.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-230) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780807132838
- 0807132837
- OCLC:
- 123349595
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