Family bonds : free Blacks and re-enslavement law in Antebellum Virginia

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"Between 1854 and 1864, more than a hundred free African Americans in Virginia proposed to enslave themselves and, in some cases, their children. Ted Maris-Wolf explains this phenomenon as a response to state legislation that forced free African Americans to make a terrible choice: leave enslav...

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Main Author: Maris-Wolf, Ted (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill [North Carolina] : The University of North Carolina Press, 2015.
Subjects:
Free African Americans > Legal status, laws, etc. > Virginia > History.
Slavery > Law and legislation > Virginia > History.
Freed persons > Legal status, laws, etc. > Virginia > History.
African American families > Virginia > History.
African Americans > Civil rights > History.
Familles noires américaines > Virginie > Histoire.
Noirs américains > Droits > Histoire.
LAW > Constitutional.
LAW > Public.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Slavery.
African American families.
African Americans > Civil rights.
Freed persons > Legal status, laws, etc.
Slavery > Law and legislation.
Virginia.
Electronic books
History.

University of St. Thomas

Holdings details from University of St. Thomas
Call Number: KFV2801.6.S55 M37 2015

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