Slavery's Borderland : Freedom and Bondage Along the Ohio River /
By centering the practical and figurative significance of the Ohio River as a political border, a cultural boundary, and an artery of movement and economy that gave form to the region, the author sheds light on peculiarities of labor and economy along the Ohio River.
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2013]
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| Edición: | First edition. |
| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : Listening to the River
- Origins of the Border between Slavery and Freedom
- Crossing the Line
- Slaveholding Liberators
- Steamboats and the Transformation of the Borderland
- Politics of Unity and Difference
- Fugitive Slaves and the Borderland
- The Nature of Antislavery in the Borderland
- The Borderland and the Civil War.


