Slavery's Borderland: Freedom and Bondage Along. Salafia Paperback<|

Slaverys Borderland\nby Matthew Salafia\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Matthew Salafia\nTitle: Slaverys Borderland\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Slavery and abolition of slavery\nPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press\nPublication year: 2017\nISBN-13: 9780812224085\nISBN-10: 0812224086\nRRP: \u00A327.99\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nIn 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 physical boundary and a unifying economic and cultural force that muddied the distinction between southern and northern forms of labor and polit.