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Product details Paperback 516 pages Publisher Haley's (July 5, 2018) Language English ISBN-10 0998273546

Borderers Carla Barringer Rabinowitz Mark Wright 9780998273549 Books Reviews

• Carla Barringer Rabinowitz has captured not only a single generation's frontier experience, but the evolution over several generations of her family's forebears as they kept pace with (and propelled) a shifting southern U. S. border in the 18th and 19th centuries. In the process, she displays an extraordinary grasp of conditions on the Virginia, North Carolina and, eventually, Arkansas borderlands and weaves artfully into her narrative legal, religious, social, political, and cultural threads that help to explain the many ways that families were forced, in some cases, and enticed in others to keep moving west. And there is a more personal side of her book Ms. Rabinowitz' search uncovers in her own family a mixture of cultural and racial bloodlines that include slaves and the masters who kept them.
  Borderers in a precious resource for readers of U.S. History. Its documentation of the liminal world between "civilization" to the East and "wildness" to the West is rare indeed. The revelations that emerge of the influences on her ancestors -- and us all -- are necessary to a full understanding of how we think of ourselves as Americans.
• I was intrigued by the title "Borderers" and read the back cover and beginning of the introduction. I was hooked. The lives of distant relatives the author never knew existed, the trials and tribulations of ordinary people in the early days of our growing and expanding country, the interactions of white, African American slaves and free people of color are laced together in a story I could not put down. Watching several families move west across the country as the United States grew and expanded from pre-revolution times past the Civil War was a history of class, race, religious interactions, both positive and negative, seen through the eyes of these ordinary folks. I got a big dose of eye opening american history I never learned in school. No matter your own background and ancestry, you will want to read this book and get a real insight into Carla's ancestors she met for the first time. She spent over seventeen years researching for this book. Be prepared to stay up late and put this book at the top of your To Do list.
• This is a captivating story of how ordinary people, striving to survive and prosper in a young America, shaped the social and political evolution of their country. Rabinowitz is a masterful story teller. She introduces us to generations of her own ancestors, and we follow their journeys from the eastern seaboard to the territories of Kansas and Arkansas, through Indian Territory, and on to the Pacific coast. Sometimes they prosper, sometimes they fail. But always they offer us a window into how we became Americans. I couldn't put it down.