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
Matthew Salafia is coordinator of the University Honors Program and teaches at North Dakota State University.
"Matthew Salafia brings the growing literature on the variety
within American slavery and the 'many Souths' into conversation
with the rich literature on the Old Northwest, and adds to all of
these the uniqueness of slavery in the Ohio valley and its
relationship with servitude across the river. By placing the river
at the center, Slavery's Borderland transcends not only state
histories but also regional histories."—Matthew Mason, Brigham
Young University
"[This book] is engagingly written, the individual stories are
compelling, and Salafia weaves them all together to give readers a
real sense of time and place. Slavery's Borderland deserves a wide
readership for it offers much insight into how racism became
embedded in American culture."—American Historical Review
"Rather than seeing the Ohio River as a flowing borderline
separating slavery from freedom, Salafia's work revises historians'
well-worn assumptions to explore how cross-river connections
sustained a region economically and—at least among whites—socially
during the first half of the nineteenth century. . . . How long
will it be before we have a reconsideration of the entire
borderland between slavery and freedom from the colonial period to
the post-Civil War era? Salafia's book has given the field an
approach—and a regional start—for how that work might be done
best."—Journal of the Early Republic
"Slavery's Borderland directs our attention from states defined by
arbitrary political borders to fluid regions defined by networks of
people interacting within a shared landscape. Avoiding the usual
tendency to emphasize differences between slave Kentucky and free
Ohio and Indiana, Matthew Salafia shows systems of labor evolving
along a continuum that straddled the Ohio River. A fresh and long
overdue perspective."—Andrew Cayton, Miami University
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