Not quite the Cotton Kingdom or the free labor North, the nineteenth-century border South was a land in between.
While many defended patriarchal hou.
Border families articulated these hybrid values in both the legislative hall and the home.
In factories and plantations along the Ohio River, a unique regional identity emerged: one rooted in kinship, tolerance, and compromise.
Here, the era\'s clashing values -- slavery and freedom, city and country, industry and agriculture -- met and melded.
Not quite the Cotton Kingdom or the free labor North, the nineteenth-century border South was a land in between