id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt zk51vd69g3w Matthew Salafia Slavery's Borderland: Freedom and Bondage Along the Ohio River, 1787-1851 2009 .txt text/plain 351 15 61 The river linked borderland slavery with borderland free labor, as wage labor and chattel slavery became points on a capitalist continuum rather than mutually exclusive categories for black Americans. This dissertation examines how antebellum Americans understood the Ohio River as the geographical division between slavery and freedom. cache/zk51vd69g3w.txt txt/zk51vd69g3w.txt