mason-dixon line

Provides a history of the Mason-Dixon Line, the boundary between Maryland and Pennsylvania surveyed by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, discussing the property disputes, family feuds, and exploration associated with it.

Presents a history of the Mason-Dixon line, including how it came to be, and the symbolism it holds in America. Includes black-and-white illustrations.

In 1848 Willow, a fifteen-year-old educated slave girl girl faces an inconceivable choice--between bondage and and freedom, family and love--as free born, seventeen-year-old Cato, a black man, takes it upon himself to sneak as many fugitive slaves to freedom as he can on the Mason-Dixon Line.

Tells the story of the sometimes violent boundary disputes between colonial Maryland and Pennsylvania, and how two surveyors established the line that finally brought peace.

Traces the history of the Mason-Dixon line, discussing how it defined the contours of early America and later symbolized the tensions and fears of the nation.