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Border Crossings: The Detroit River Region in the War of 1812

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After the American Revolution, the Detroit River marked the boundary between the American frontier outpost of Detroit and the British Canadian communities of Sandwich (present-day Windsor, Ontario) and Fort Amherstburg. For more than a generation, American citizens, British subjects, French settlers, Native Americans, and African slaves and freedmen automatically crossed the border at the same time as living and working together in probably the most diverse regions in North The united states. That tranquility ended with the War of 1812. Cross-river neighbors transformed into enemies as the in the past ignored border became fraught with new political significance.

The result of a year-long community history partnership between the Detroit Historical Society and Wayne State University, Border Crossings uncovers the personal and group interactions continuously ignored in standard histories of the War of 1812. In August 1812, U.S. General William Hull surrendered Detroit to the British under General Isaac Brock. For more than a year, until September 1813, Detroit remained within the hands of the British. Americans then occupied settlements at the Canadian side of the Detroit River until July 1815-well past the official end of the war. These more than one “border crossings” had profound implications for the diverse inhabitants of the Detroit River region, including widespread privation, imprisonment, enemy attacks, and dispossession of homes and land.

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