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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:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2015]
Series:	UNC Press law publications. Slavery in America and the world: history, culture & law. Civil rights and social justice.
Subjects:	Free African Americans > Legal status, laws, etc. > Virginia > History. Slavery > Law and legislation > Virginia > History. Freedmen > Legal status, laws, etc. > Virginia > History. African American families > Virginia > History. African Americans > Civil rights > History. Electronic books.
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