The Fifth Border StateSlavery, Emancipation, and the Formation of West Virginia, 18291872\nAuthor(s): Scott A. MacKenzie\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: West Virginia University Press, United States\nImprint: West Virginia University Press\nISBN-13: 9781952271717, 978-1952271717\nSynopsis\nOne of the first new interpretations of West Virginias origins in over a centuryand one that corrects previous histories tendency to minimize support for slavery in the states founding.\n\n Every history of West Virginias 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 and seek their independence from the rest of the state. InThe Fifth Border State, Scott A. MacKenzie offers the first new interpretation of the topic in over a centuryone that corrects earlier histories tendency to minimize support for slavery in the stat.