A question of freedom : the families who challenged slavery from the nation's founding to the Civil War / William G. Thomas III.
Title:
A question of freedom : the families who challenged slavery from the nation's founding to the Civil War / William G. Thomas III.
ISBN:
9780300234121
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Publication Information:
New Haven : Yale University Press, [2020]
©2020
Physical Description:
418 pages : illustrations, maps, genealogical charts ; 25 cm
Contents:
Prologue: Georgetown, April 2017 -- The planting -- The inheritance.
Summary:
The story of the longest and most complex legal challenge to slavery in American history, in which a number of enslaved families challenged their bondage in court.
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OCLC Number:
on1198444611
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