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Pages: 329
Pages: 329
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-05-28 - Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
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
Language: en
Pages: 297
Pages: 297
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-05-25 - Publisher: LSU Press
In the early nineteenth century, Rochester, New York, and St. Catharines, Canada West, were the last stops on the Niagara branch of the Underground Railroad. Bo
Language: en
Pages: 368
Pages: 368
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-08-06 - Publisher: UNC Press Books
By the late 1810s, a global revolution in cotton had remade the U.S.-Mexico border, bringing wealth and waves of Americans to the Gulf Coast while also devastat
Language: en
Pages: 216
Pages: 216
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-05-07 - Publisher: McFarland
Between 1783 and 1860, more than 100,000 enslaved African Americans escaped across the border between slave and free territory in search of freedom. Most of the
Language: en
Pages: 280
Pages: 280
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-05-02 - Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Borderlands of Slavery explores how the existence of two involuntary labor systems—Mexican peonage and Indian captivity—in the nineteenth-century Southwest