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

"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: Online
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.
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Online Access:HeinOnline UNC Press Law Publications
HeinOnline Slavery in America and the World
HeinOnline Civil Rights and Social Justice
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