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Book

Mason-Dixon : crucible of the nation

Call Number

  • 975 G7788 (CEN)

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Publication Information

Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, [2023]

Physical Description

xiii, 440 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

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"--

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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