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January 10, 2024

Mason-Dixon Crucible of the Nation

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Free Download Mason-Dixon: Crucible of the Nation by Edward G. Gray
English | October 24, 2023 | ISBN: 0674987616 | True PDF | 456 pages | 38.6 MB
The first comprehensive history of the Mason-Dixon Line―a dramatic story of imperial rivalry and settler-colonial violence, the bonds of slavery and the fight for freedom.

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January 3, 2024

Mason-Dixon Crucible of the Nation [Audiobook]

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Free Download Mason-Dixon: Crucible of the Nation (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CN1MMJGL | 2023 | 15 hours and 5 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 419 MB
Author: Edward G. Gray
Narrator: Walter Dixon
The story of the Mason-Dixon Line is the story of America’s colonial beginnings, nation building, and conflict over slavery. Acclaimed historian Edward Gray offers the first comprehensive narrative of the America’s defining border. Formalized in 1767, the Mason-Dixon Line resolved a generations-old dispute that began with the establishment of Pennsylvania in 1681. In 1780, Pennsylvania’s Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery inaugurated the next phase in the Line’s history. Proslavery and antislavery sentiments had long coexisted in the Maryland-Pennsylvania borderlands, but now African Americans faced a boundary between distinct legal regimes.

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