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Mason & Dixon

1997
Henry Holt and Co.

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Map of the Mason-Dixon line.
Book Review

Mason-Dixon Lines

The boundary lines preceding Mason and Dixon, everybody knows, were a sham. What’s to follow will be no better.
by Edward G. Gray via Commonplace on January 16, 2024

Associated Excerpts

A fiber art piece depicting the Mason-Dixon line.

The Most Rancorous Line

How did the Mason–Dixon Line—meant to resolve a longstanding colonial border dispute—come to represent the US’s foundational divide between slavery and freedom?
by Nicholas Guyatt via New York Review of Books on December 25, 2025
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