Mason-Dixon Line

Mason-Dixon line English Mason–Dixon line Alternative forms en Mason-Dixon line Mason and Dixon line Mason's and Dixon's line Etymology Named after English astronomers Charles Mason (1728–1786) and Jeremiah Dixon (1733–1779). Proper noun Mason–Dixon Line 1 en historical The boundary line between Pennsylvania and Maryland, as run (1764–1767) by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, that, before abolition, defined part of the northern boundary of states in which slavery was permitted. en 1776 w:Thomas Jefferson The Virginia Constitution (Letter to Edmund Pendleton) http://infomotions.com/etexts/literature/american/1700-1799/jefferson-letters-256.htm Philadelphia I am indebted to you for a topic to deny to the Pensylvania claim to a line 39 complete degrees from the equator. As an advocate I shall certainly insist on it; but I wish they would compromise by an extension of Mason & Dixon's line. — They do not agree to the temporary line proposed by our assembly. https://web.archive.org/web/20221016023207/http://infomotions.com/etexts/literature/american/1700-1799/jefferson-letters-256.htm 16 October 2022 en 1779 1847 w:George Bryan Life and Correspondence of Joseph Reed: Military Secretary of Washington, at Cambridge, Adjutant-general of the Continental Army, Member of the Congress of the United States, and President of the Executive Council of the State of Pennsylvania. http://books.google.com/books?id=ojujVebQcqYC&pg=PA134 1779 George Bryan to President Reed, Baltimore, August 31st, 1779 Lindsay and Blakiston Philadelphia w:William Bradford Reed 2 134 The Virginia gentlemen offer to divide exactly the 40th degree with us, Perhaps we would be as well off with Mason and Dixon's line continued. en 1861 1862 w:Artemus Ward His Book: with Many Comic Illustrations http://books.google.com/books?id=HM3U_PgFgdsC&pg=PA204 Thrilling Scenes in Dixie Corleton New-York 204 Suffysit to say I got across Mason & Dixie's line safe at last. The boundary between the free and slave states at the time of the American Civil War, or between states with different segregationist policies in the Jim Crow era. en 1833 1834 Charles Augustus Davis Letters of Jack Downing, Major, Downingville Militia, Second Brigade, to His Old Friend, Mr. Dwight, of The New-York Daily Advertiser. http://books.google.com/books?id=28A_AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA36 Letter III: Cause of the sudden termination of the President's Eastern Tour—Dance at Downingville—Trying on the Gineral's coat (July 14, 1833) Harper & brothers New-York 36 and he tell'd me Georgia would go for me, arter the Gineral, as soon as any north of mason and dickson. en 1843 w:Charles Fenno Hoffman; John Holmes Agnew The Knickerbocker; Or, New-York Monthly Magazine http://books.google.com/books?id=-_ozAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA185 Editor's Table John Allen New-York 22 185 The epistles are not dated far apart; and in the second, the writer, who dwelleth near ‘Mason and Dixon,’ descants upon the awful climate hereabout in the summer months. en 2022 Part I. The New Deal Order, 1930–1980 2 w:Gary Gerstle Oxford University Press The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era New York 978-0-19-751964-6 The Soviet press was disseminating in Africa and Asia stories about black children in the South being denied adequate schooling, black accident victims dying because no white hospital in the South would admit them, and African diplomats being refused access to white restaurants and washrooms while traveling south of the Mason-Dixon line. Derived terms en Munson-Nixon Line en eponyms en American Civil War Slavery Demarcation lines