By Sally M. Walker
ISBN-10: 0763673315
ISBN-13: 9780763673314
ISBN-10: 1680650092
ISBN-13: 9781680650099
The Mason-Dixon Line’s historical past, replete with estate disputes, persecution, and ideological conflicts, traverses our country’s heritage from its founding to at the present time.
We reside in a global of barriers — geographic, medical, cultural, and non secular. one in every of America’s such a lot enduring limitations is the Mason-Dixon Line, such a lot linked to the divide among the North and the South and the best to freedom for every body. Sibert Medal–winning writer Sally M. Walker strains the story of the Mason-Dixon Line via kin feuds, courageous exploration, medical excellence, and the fight to outline a cohesive nation. yet primarily, this extraordinary tale of surveying, marking, and respecting strains of demarcation will alert younger heritage buffs to their assured correct and accountability to discover, problem, switch, and shield the limits that outline them.
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