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The Fifth Border State: Slavery and the Formation of West Virginia, 1850-1868 

MacKenzie, Scott (2014-06-30)
Civil War historians unfairly treat West Virginia as an oddity. They tend to see it as the dissident part of Virginia that resisted its secession in 1861 to protest decades of economic neglect. Some explain this process ...