Edward G. Gray - Mason-Dixon : Crucible of the Nation - Hardback

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The Author Name is Edward G. Gray
The Title is Mason-Dixon : Crucible of the Nation

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The first comprehensive history of the Mason-Dixon Linea€”a dramatic story of imperial rivalry and settler-colonial violence, the bonds of slavery and the fight for freedom. The United States is the product of border dynamicsa€”not just at international frontiers but at the boundary that runs through its first heartland. The story of the Mason-Dixon Line is the story of Americaa€s colonial beginnings, nation building, and conflict over slavery. Acclaimed historian Edward Gray offers the first comprehensive narrative of the Americaa€s defining border. Formalized in 1767, the Mason-Dixon Line resolved a generations-old dispute that began with the establishment of Pennsylvania in 1681. Rivalry with the Calverts of Marylanda€”complicated by struggles with Dutch settlers in Delaware, breakneck agricultural development, and the resistance of Lenape and Susquehannock nativesa€”had led to contentious jurisdictional ambiguity, full-scale battles among the colonists, and ethnic slaughter. In 1780, Pennsylvaniaa€s Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery inaugurated the next phase in the Linea€s history. Proslavery and antislavery sentiments had long coexisted in the Marylanda€“Pennsylvania borderlands, but now African Americansa€”enslaved and freea€”faced a boundary between distinct legal regimes. With the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act in 1850, the Mason-Dixon Line became a federal instrument to arrest the northward flow of freedom-seeking Blacks. Only with the end of the Civil War did the Linea€s significance fade, though it continued to haunt African Americans as Jim Crow took hold. Mason-Dixon tells the gripping story of colonial grandees, Native American diplomats, Quaker abolitionists, fugitives from slavery, capitalist railroad and canal builders, US presidents, Supreme Court justices, and Underground Railroad conductorsa€”all contending with the relentless violence and political discord of a borderland that was a transformative force in American history.

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