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Crossing The Mason Dixon Line

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Author : David Anderson
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2011-07-21

Crossing The Mason Dixon Line written by David Anderson and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-07-21 with History categories.

The Mason Dixon Line

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Author : John Davenport
language : en
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Release Date : 2004

The Mason Dixon Line written by John Davenport and has been published by Infobase Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Mason-Dixon Line categories.

Looks at the history of the boundary which served as the barrier between the North and the South and represented the tensions over slavery.

Look Away

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Author : Jon Smith
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2004-07-21

Look Away written by Jon Smith and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-07-21 with History categories.

DIVExamines what happens to our paradigms of the American south if we understand the "south" hemispherically, to include Latin America and the Caribbean./div

Mason Dixon

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Author : Thomas Pynchon
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2012-06-13

Mason Dixon written by Thomas Pynchon and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-13 with Fiction categories.

"A novel that is as moving as it is cerebral, as poignant as it is daring." - Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times "Mason & Dixon - like Huckleberry Finn, like Ulysses - is one of the great novels about male friendship in anybody's literature." - John Leonard, The Nation Charles Mason (1728–1786) and Jeremiah Dixon (1733–1779) were the British surveyors best remembered for running the boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland that we know today as the Mason-Dixon Line. Here is their story as reimagined by Thomas Pynchon, featuring Native Americans and frontier folk, ripped bodices, naval warfare, conspiracies erotic and political, major caffeine abuse. Unreflectively entangled in crimes of demarcation, Mason & Dixon take us along on a grand tour of the Enlightenment’s dark hemisphere, from their first journey together to the Cape of Good Hope, to pre-Revolutionary America and back to England, into the shadowy yet redemptive turns of their later lives, through incongruities in conscience, parallaxes of personality, tales of questionable altitude told and intimated by voices clamoring not to be lost. Along the way they encounter a plentiful cast of characters, including Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, and Samuel Johnson, as well as a Chinese feng shui master, a Swedish irredentist, a talking dog, and a robot duck. The quarrelsome, daring, mismatched pair—Mason as melancholy and Gothic as Dixon is cheerful and pre-Romantic—pursues a linear narrative of irregular lives, observing, and managing to participate in the many occasions of madness presented them by the Age of Reason.

Mason Dixon

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Author : Edward G. Gray
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2023-10-24

Mason Dixon written by Edward G. Gray and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-10-24 with History categories.

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. The United States is the product of border dynamics—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 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. Rivalry with the Calverts of Maryland—complicated by struggles with Dutch settlers in Delaware, breakneck agricultural development, and the resistance of Lenape and Susquehannock natives—had led to contentious jurisdictional ambiguity, full-scale battles among the colonists, and ethnic slaughter. 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—enslaved and free—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 Line’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 conductors—all contending with the relentless violence and political discord of a borderland that was a transformative force in American history.

Slavery And The Founders

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Author : Paul Finkelman
language : en
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
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Slavery And The Founders written by Paul Finkelman and has been published by M.E. Sharpe this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with History categories.

A study of the attitudes of the founding fathers toward slavery. This revised text examines the views of Thomas Jefferson reflected in his life and writings and those of other founders as expressed in sources such as the Constitution, the Constituional Convention and the Northwest Ordinance.

Leaving The South

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Author : Mary Weaks-Baxter
language : en
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date : 2018-12-17

Leaving The South written by Mary Weaks-Baxter and has been published by Univ. Press of Mississippi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-12-17 with History categories.

Millions of southerners left the South in the twentieth century in a mass migration that has, in many ways, rewoven the fabric of American society on cultural, political, and economic levels. Because the movements of southerners--and people in general--are controlled not only by physical boundaries marked on a map but also by narratives that define movement, narrative is central in building and sustaining borders and in breaking them down. In Leaving the South: Border Crossing Narratives and the Remaking of Southern Identity, author Mary Weaks-Baxter analyzes narratives by and about those who left the South and how those narratives have remade what it means to be southern. Drawing from a broad range of narratives, including literature, newspaper articles, art, and music, Weaks-Baxter outlines how these displacement narratives challenged concepts of southern nationhood and redefined southern identity. Close attention is paid to how depictions of the South, particularly in the media and popular culture, prompted southerners to leave the region and changed perceptions of southerners to outsiders as well as how southerners saw themselves. Through an examination of narrative, Weaks-Baxter reveals the profound effect gender, race, and class have on the nature of the migrant's journey, the adjustment of the migrant, and the ultimate decision of the migrant either to stay put or return home, and connects the history of border crossings to the issues being considered in today's national landscape.

Across The Line

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Author : Barry Jacobs
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2022-11-01

Across The Line written by Barry Jacobs and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11-01 with Sports & Recreation categories.

In the 1960s, college sports required more than athletic prowess from its African American players. For many pioneering basketball players on 18 teams in the Atlantic and Southeastern conference, playing ball meant braving sometimes menacing crowds during the tumultuous era of civil rights. Perry Wallace feared he would be shot when he first stepped onto a court in his Vanderbilt uniform. During one road game, Georgia's Ronnie Hogue fended off a hostile crowd with a chair. Craig Mobley had to flee the Clemson campus, along with other black students. C.B. Claiborne couldn't attend the Duke team banquet when it was held at an all-white country club. Wendell Hudson's mother cried with heartache when her son decided to play at the University of Alabama, and Al Heartley locked himself in a campus dorm at North Carolina State for safety the night Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated. Grounded in the civil rights struggles on campuses throughout the south, the voices of players, coaches, opponents and fans reveal the long-neglected story of race, sports and social history. Barry Jacobs has covered college basketball as well as news and other sports since 1976 for numerous publications, among them the New York Times, Washington Post, GQ, People, Oceans, the Saturday Evening Post and the Sporting News. He is the author of four books, including Coach K's Little Blue Book, The World According to Dean, and Three Paths to Glory. For 14 years he wrote the Fan’s Guide to ACC Basketball. He also served as an elected county commissioner for 20 years and supervises Moorefields, an historic site near Hillsborough, NC.

Mason Dixon Memories

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Author : Stacia Roberts Pangburn
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
Release Date : 2014-06-12

Mason Dixon Memories written by Stacia Roberts Pangburn and has been published by Createspace Independent Pub this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-12 with Family & Relationships categories.

In essence this is the continuous coming-of-age story about a fragile family during the fifties, sixties, and beyond who spent years crossing the Mason-Dixon Line in search of the truth, new beginnings, redemption, and the best way to live their lives. This nostalgic look back at first loves and friendships that last a lifetime speaks to the strength and continuity of the invisible thread of unity which kept them connected through time and place, even after their family fractured. When two Southern brothers from New Roads, Louisiana married two Northern sisters from New England, the roots of these Mason-Dixon matches were planted in the fertile soil along the great Mississippi. Although one of the only things that they had in common was the word 'new' in their places of origin, the author's young and impetuous parents decided to elope nine days after they were introduced by their older siblings! They then began to build the foundation of our lives in a little cypress shotgun cabin under the beautiful cathedral ceiling of an oak alley on a piece of land called Live Oak. For thirteen years they tried to make their marriage last, but it eventually shattered when Mama left Daddy behind without any warning and took their daughters back to her home in Massachusetts. On the day that we were taken so far away from Daddy and Live Oak, the 'before and after' days of our youth began. We spent years crossing the lines of our lives going back and forth from South to North and back to Dixie again where we eventually spent summers with Daddy and renewed our childhood friendships. Through time most of the relationships from both places stood the test of time and, in the end, after we had all finally come-of-age we eventually returned to the place where our story had begun. Through everything we each grew to see the blessings that were right before us all along. Every day people are impacted by abuse, alcoholism, divorce, murder, mental and physical illness, and suicide. Our family was touched by all of these, but we were also enveloped by the love, kindness, empathy, support, encouragement, understanding, and compassion of those who surrounded us. These are more than mere words because there is a great deal of meaning behind them. "Mason-Dixon Memories" is the story about who we became while we were carried through our lives by the goodness of others.

Boundaries

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Author : Sally M. Walker
language : en
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Release Date : 2014-03-01

Boundaries written by Sally M. Walker and has been published by Candlewick Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-01 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.

The award-winning author of Secrets of a Civil War Submarine traces the history of the Mason-Dixon Line as reflected by family feuds, exploration, scientific advancement and the cultural conflicts between America's northern and southern states.