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Appealing for Liberty: Freedom Suits in the South
By Schweninger, Loren
- ISBN
- 9780190664282 9780190664305
- Publisher
- Oxford Univ.
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Starred Review on October 15, 2018 | Social Sciences
The infamous 1857 U.S. Supreme Court decision denying the freedom petitions of Harriet and Dred Scott represented but one of thousands of freedom suits filed to escape slavery in pre-Civil War America, explains Schweninger (emeritus, history, Univ. of North Carolina at Greensboro; Families in Crisis in the Old South). Using primary documents from the university's Race and Slavery Petitions Project, where Schweninger served a...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
