A Question of Freedom: The Families Who Challenged Slavery from the Nations Founding to the Civil War Thomas William G.
A Question of Freedom: The Families Who Challenged Slavery from the Nations Founding to the Civil War Thomas William G. Winner of the Mark Lynton Prize in History--the story of the longest and most…
Specifikacia A Question of Freedom: The Families Who Challenged Slavery from the Nations Founding to the Civil War Thomas William G.
A Question of Freedom: The Families Who Challenged Slavery from the Nations Founding to the Civil War Thomas William G.
Winner of the Mark Lynton Prize in History--the story of the longest and most complex legal challenge to slavery in American history "A rich, roiling history that Thomas recounts with eloquence and skill. . . . 'Freedom was local, ' Thomas writes. The very existence of freedom suits assumed that slavery could only be circumscribed and local; what Thomas shows in his illuminating book is how this view was eventually turned upside down in decisions like Dred Scott.
Profound and prodigiously researched."--Alison L. 'Slavery was national.'"--Jennifer Szalai, New York Times "Gripping. . . . LaCroix, Washington PostFor 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