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

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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Salafia, Matthew (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2013]
Colección:Early American Studies
Temas:
Slavery > Indiana.
Slavery > Kentucky.
Slavery > Ohio.
American History.
HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877).
American Studies.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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