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Author Gray, Edward G., 1964-2023 author.

Title Mason-Dixon : crucible of the nation / Edward G. Gray.

Publication Info. Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2023.

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 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult New Materials  975 GRAY    Check Shelf
 Plainville Public Library - New Materials  975.03 GRA    Check Shelf
Description 456 pages : maps ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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.
Subject Borderlands -- Northeastern States -- History -- 19th century.
Borderlands -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.
Slavery -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Mason-Dixon Line -- History.
HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
Borderlands. (OCoLC)fst01723579
Slavery. (OCoLC)fst01120426
Northeastern States. (OCoLC)fst01242521
Southern States. (OCoLC)fst01244550
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
United States -- Mason-Dixon Line. (OCoLC)fst01243117
Chronological Term 1800-1899
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
ISBN 9780674987616 (hardcover)
0674987616 (hardcover)
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