The History Project: The Underground Railroad, Part 2 – The Mason-Dixon Line

22/03/2024 2 min
The History Project:  The Underground Railroad, Part 2 – The Mason-Dixon Line

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The Mason-Dixon Line was created to officially decide the boundary between states, but as enslavement became entrenched in the South, it became the dividing line between slave states an free states, making Western Virginia's proximity to Pennsylvania a locus of the Underground Railroad.