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Gray, Edward G., 1964- author.
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Borderlands -- Northeastern States -- History -- 19th century.
Borderlands -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.
Slavery -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Mason-Dixon Line -- History.
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Mason-Dixon : crucible of the nation / Edward G. Gray.
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Gray, Edward G., 1964- author.
Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2023.
Subjects
Borderlands -- Northeastern States -- History -- 19th century.
Borderlands -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.
Slavery -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Mason-Dixon Line -- History.
ISBN:
9780674987616 (hardcover) :
0674987616 (hardcover)
Description:
xiii, 440 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Contents:
Part I: Marchlands in Motion. Lord Baltimore's Northern Problem -- William Penn's Unlikely Empire -- The Battle for Maryland's Far North -- Part II: Marchlands into Borderlands. The Squatters' Empire -- An American Bloodlands -- The Science of Borders -- Part III: A Border Emerges. The Making of States, Free and Slave -- Borderlands as Heartland -- Fugitive Diplomacy -- The Fall of Greater Baltimore -- Part IV: The Age of the Mason-Dixon Line. The Second Fugitive Slave Act -- Border War along the Underground Railroad -- Borderlands into Border States -- The End of the Line.
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"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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Hawaii State Library
Adult New Books
975.03 Gr
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04/04/2024
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Mililani Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
975.03 Gr
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