"When the team of Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon surveyed Pennsylvania's southern edge in the 1760s, they placed York county in the middle of America's history. They ran a 40-mile state and county line that has indelibly marked where North meets South. It was a border on paper, not a wall of logs, and a steady stream of slaves seeking their liberty flowed from Maryland, Virginia, and points south of the county. Armed slave owners followed these freedom seekers and often found these bondsmen mysteriously disappeared as if, according to one historian, 'the ground swallowed the up.' Award-winning Civil War historian Scott Mingus tells the compelling story of how the Underground Railroad in York County helped these fugitives find their coveted freedom. It's a story of an oppressed people's quest for liberty and about how conductors along their pathway of freedom in York County's hills and valleys aided their escape 'without public applause or hope of award'." --Back cover.