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If the Mason-Dixon Line could talk, here are the stories. It would tell. Pulitzerprize winning reporter and travel writer Bill Ecenbarger has walked the Mason-Dixon line - from its beginning on Fenwick Island, Delaware, to its end at Brown's Hill, Pennsylvania - diverting left and right to Interview the people who live along its border. The line was surveyed between 1763 and 1768 by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon to settle a dispute between Robert Penn and Lord Calvert, whose family owned what is now the state of Maryland. In 1780, Pennsylvania passed a law to abolish slavery, making the Mason-Dixon Line the divider between free and slave states. From that moment, it also became a lightning rod for racial conflict that continues to this day. This unique history/travelogue examines the influence of this great divider, which remains the most powerful symbol separating Yankee from Rebel, oatmeal from grits, North from South.

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• Plný název: Walkin' the Line
• Podnázev: A Journey from Past to Present Along the Mason-Dixon
• Autor: William Ecenbarger
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Vazba: Pevná
• Počet stran: 240
• EAN: 9780871319104
• ISBN: 0871319101
• ID: 04945679
• Nakladatelství: Rowman & Littlefield
• Hmotnost: 431 g
• Rozměry: 234 × 155 × 20 mm
• Datum vydání: 28. August 2000

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