Title:
Mason-Dixon : crucible of the nation / Edward G. Gray.
ISBN:
9780674987616
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Publication Information:
Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, [2023]
Physical Description:
xiii, 440 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Contents:
Part I: Marchlands in Motion. Lord Baltimore's Northern Problem -- William Penn's Unlikely Empire -- Battle for Maryland's Far North -- Part II: Marchlands into Borderlands. Squatters' Empire -- An American Bloodlands -- Science of Borders -- Part III: A Border Emerges. Making of States, Free and Slave -- Borderlands as Heartland -- Fugitive Diplomacy -- Fall of Greater Baltimore -- Part IV: The Age of the Mason-Dixon Line. Second Fugitive Slave Act -- Border War along the Underground Railroad -- Borderlands into Border States -- End of the Line.
Summary:
"A grand narrative history of the boundary that began as a simple demarcation between the feuding Pennsylvania and Maryland colonies but became a byword for the fundamental national division between the slavery-preserving South and abolitionist North"-- Provided by publisher.
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OCLC Number:
on1362514925
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