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Book Review | The Journal of American History, 86.4 | The History Cooperative

In Armageddon's Shadow: The Civil War and Canada's Maritime Provinces. By Greg Marquis. (Halifax: Saint Mary's University and Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1998. xx, 389 pp. $34.95, isbn 0-7735-1792-8.)

Despite their nearness to New England, the Canadian Maritime Provinces—Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island—exhibited strong pro-Southern sympathies during the Civil War. That was due to past problems with the United States and the feeling that the American South was seeking to separate itself from a tyrannical government at Washington, D.C. Yet, more Maritimers fought in the Union army than for the Confederacy. The large bounties paid to enlistees and the belief that the American government should not fail encouraged volunteering. Few volunteers were concerned about the institution of slavery. Indeed, Maritimers generally had little respect for American abolitionists and, like many Americans across the border, held strong prejudices toward people of African descent. . . .

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