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A Question of Freedom
The Families Who Challenged Slavery from the Nation's Founding to the Civil War
Buch von William G. Thomas
Sprache: Englisch

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"For over seventy years and five generations, the enslaved families of Prince George's County, Maryland, filed hundreds of suits for their freedom against a powerful circle of slaveholders, taking their cause all the way to the Supreme Court. Between 1787 and 1861, these lawsuits challenged the legitimacy of slavery in American law and put slavery on trial in the nation's capital. Piecing together evidence once dismissed in court and buried in the archives, William Thomas tells an intricate and intensely human story of the enslaved families (the Butlers, Queens, Mahoneys, and others), their lawyers (among them a young Francis Scott Key), and the slaveholders who fought to defend slavery, beginning with the Jesuit priests who held some of the largest plantations in the nation and founded a college at Georgetown. A Question of Freedom asks us to reckon with the moral problem of slavery and its legacies in the present day."--Provided by publisher.
"For over seventy years and five generations, the enslaved families of Prince George's County, Maryland, filed hundreds of suits for their freedom against a powerful circle of slaveholders, taking their cause all the way to the Supreme Court. Between 1787 and 1861, these lawsuits challenged the legitimacy of slavery in American law and put slavery on trial in the nation's capital. Piecing together evidence once dismissed in court and buried in the archives, William Thomas tells an intricate and intensely human story of the enslaved families (the Butlers, Queens, Mahoneys, and others), their lawyers (among them a young Francis Scott Key), and the slaveholders who fought to defend slavery, beginning with the Jesuit priests who held some of the largest plantations in the nation and founded a college at Georgetown. A Question of Freedom asks us to reckon with the moral problem of slavery and its legacies in the present day."--Provided by publisher.
Über den Autor
William G. Thomas III is the John and Catherine Angle Chair in the Humanities and Professor of History at the University of Nebraska. He is co-founder and was director of the Virginia Center for Digital History at the University of Virginia.
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Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Genre: Geschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Buch
Seiten: 432
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9780300234121
ISBN-10: 0300234120
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Thomas, William G.
Hersteller: Yale University Press
Maße: 239 x 161 x 35 mm
Von/Mit: William G. Thomas
Erscheinungsdatum: 09.02.2021
Gewicht: 0,766 kg
preigu-id: 118219809
Über den Autor
William G. Thomas III is the John and Catherine Angle Chair in the Humanities and Professor of History at the University of Nebraska. He is co-founder and was director of the Virginia Center for Digital History at the University of Virginia.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Genre: Geschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Buch
Seiten: 432
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9780300234121
ISBN-10: 0300234120
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Thomas, William G.
Hersteller: Yale University Press
Maße: 239 x 161 x 35 mm
Von/Mit: William G. Thomas
Erscheinungsdatum: 09.02.2021
Gewicht: 0,766 kg
preigu-id: 118219809
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