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Making Slavery's Borders: Legal Culture and the Transformation of Slavery's Northwestern Frontier, 1787-1860

Description:

This dissertation examines the gradual construction and contested meanings of U.S. slavery’s first western border. According to most historiography, Congress’s Northwest Ordinance of 1787 fixed the meaning of this border at the nation’s inception, constituting the Northwest Territory as the free opposite of slave territories south and west of the...

Keyword:

Northwest Ordinance, Slavery, Illinois, Law and Society, Emancipation,, and Missouri

Subject:

History

Creator:

Jesse Nasta

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Scholarly Digital Publishing

Date Uploaded:

10/09/2018

Date Modified:

01/29/2019

Date Created:

2017-01-01

Resource Type:

Dissertation