Slavery's Borderland : : Freedom and Bondage Along the Ohio River /

Slavery's Borderland : : Freedom and Bondage Along the Ohio River / / Matthew Salafia.

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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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Salafia, Matthew,
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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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction. Listening to the River
  • Chapter one. Origins of the Border between Slavery and Freedom
  • Chapter two. Crossing the Line
  • Chapter three. Slaveholding Liberators
  • Chapter four. Steamboats and the Transformation of the Borderland
  • Chapter five. Politics of Unity and Difference
  • Chapter six. Fugitive Slaves and the Borderland
  • Chapter seven. The Nature of Antislavery in the Borderland
  • Chapter eight. The Borderland and the Civil War
  • Notes
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments

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