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West Virginia University Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"One of the first new interpretations of West Virginia's origins in over a century--and one that corrects previous histories' tendency to minimize support for slavery in the state's founding. Every history of West Virginia's creation in 1863 explains the event in similar ways: at the start of the Civil War, political, social, cultural, and economic differences with eastern Virginia motivated the northwestern counties to resist secession from the Union...
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