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100 1  Baumgartner, Alice,|d1987-|eauthor. 
245 10 South to freedom :|brunaway slaves to Mexico and the road 
       to the Civil War /|cAlice L. Baumgartner. 
250    First edition. 
264  1 New York :|bBasic Books,|c2020. 
300    xi, 365 pages :|billustration ;|c25 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-342) and 
       index. 
505 00 |tDefending 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. 
520    "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 Baumgartner tells the story of 
       Mexico's rise as an antislavery republic and a promised 
       land for enslaved people in North America. She describes 
       how Mexico's abolition of slavery challenged US 
       institutions and helped to set the international stage for
       the US Civil War. In 1837, shortly after Texas rebelled 
       against Mexican rule, Mexico's Congress formally abolished
       slavery, and enslaved people began to head south. Some 
       were helped by free blacks, ship captains, Mexicans, 
       Germans, gamblers, preachers, mail riders, and other 
       "lurking scoundrels," but most escaped by their own 
       ingenuity -- with stolen rifles, forged slave passes, and,
       in one instance, a wig made from horsehair and pitch. As 
       they fled across the Rio Grande, and the US government 
       failed to secure their return, their owners began to 
       suspect an international conspiracy against the "peculiar 
       institution." Meanwhile, Northern Congressmen balked at 
       reestablishing slavery in the Southwestern territories 
       taken from Mexico after the Mexican-American War. Feeling 
       increasingly embattled, slavers in Texas and Louisiana 
       came to believe that their interests would best be 
       protected outside the union. With the Southern slave 
       regime under pressure from both the north and south, the 
       conditions were in place for the coming of the US Civil 
       War. Today, our attention is fixed on people seeking 
       opportunity by moving north across our southern border, 
       but South to Freedom reveals what happened when the 
       reverse was true: when American slaves fled "the land of 
       the free" for freedom in Mexico"--|cProvided by publisher.
650  0 Fugitive slaves|zMexico|xHistory|y19th century. 
650  0 Fugitive slaves|zUnited States|xHistory|y19th century. 
650  0 Slavery|zMexico|xHistory|y19th century. 
650  0 Slavery|zUnited States|xHistory|y19th century. 
651  0 United States|xHistory|yCivil War, 1861-1865|xCauses.