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, Matthew Salafia sheds light on peculiarities of labor and economy along the Ohio River.
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| 格式: | 電子書 電子 |
| 語言: | English |
| Imprint: | Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. |
| 叢編: | Early American Studies
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| Local Note: | Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2022. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries. |
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書本目錄:
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction: Listening to the River
- Chapter 1 Origins of the Border between Slavery and Freedom
- Chapter 2 Crossing the Line
- Chapter 3 Slaveholding Liberators
- Chapter 4 Steamboats and the Transformation of the Borderland
- Chapter 5 Politics of Unity and Difference
- Chapter 6 Fugitive Slaves and the Borderland
- Chapter 7 The Nature of Antislavery in the Borderland
- Chapter 8 The Borderland and the Civil War
- Notes
- Index
- Acknowledgments.