Introduction : Listening to the River -- Origins of the Border between Slavery and Freedom -- Crossing the Line -- Slaveholding Liberators -- Steamboats and the Transformation of the Borderland -- Politics of Unity and Difference -- Fugitive Slaves and the Borderland -- The Nature of Antislavery in the Borderland -- The Borderland and the Civil War
Summary
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, the author sheds light on peculiarities of labor and economy along the Ohio River
Notes
Based on the author's thesis from the Univ. of Notre Dame, 2009
