frontiered

Updated: May 3, 2025

Minor changes were made in boundary lines and in internal relationships of property and privilege, but the European maps of the period present a record of persistent fragmentation of the continent into strongly frontiered sovereign segments. Break-up of the European empires after two general wars led to the fragmentation of each empire into self-determining sovereign units.

Scott Nearing - Civilization and Beyond: Learning from History

I can't understand why this should be, for the Indians decline to give their reasons for fearing the black men, but the fact remains that even a very bad Indian will give the mildest-mannered Negro imaginable all the room he wants, and to spare, as any old regular army soldier who has frontiered will tell you. The Indians, I fancy, attribute uncanny and eerie qualities to the blacks."

Edward A. (Edward Austin) Johnson - History of Negro Soldiers in the Spanish-American War, and Other Items of Interest