Slavery's Borderland : : Freedom and Bondage Along the Ohio River / / Matthew Salafia.
In 1787, the Northwest Ordinance made the Ohio River the dividing line between slavery and freedom in the West, yet in 1861, when the Civil War tore the nation apart, the region failed to split at this seam. In Slavery's Borderland, historian Matthew Salafia shows how the river was both a physi...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package American History |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2013] ©2013 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Early American Studies
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (328 p.) :; 7 illus |
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