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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.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Freedom bound in a new republic
  • Black clients, white attorneys
  • The Doswell brothers demand a law
  • Family and freedom in the neighborhood
  • To Liberia and back
  • Family bonds and Civil War
  • The barber of Boydton
  • Conclusion.