A Question of Freedom : : the Families who Challenged Slavery From the Nation's Founding to the Civil War
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Prologue: Georgetown, April 2017 -- The planting -- The inheritance.
The story of the longest and most complex legal challenge to slavery in American history, in which a number of enslaved families challenged their bondage in court.
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PUBLISHED
New Haven : Yale University Press, 2020.
Year Published: 2020
Description: 432 p.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780300234121
0300234120
SUBJECTS
Enslaved people -- Emancipation -- Prince George's County.
Enslaved people -- History. -- United States
Enslaved people -- Prince George's County -- Biography.
Enslaved people -- United States -- Biography.
Enslaved people -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Prince George's County.
Enslaved people -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States.
Antislavery movements -- Prince George's County.
Antislavery movements -- United States.
Prince George's County (Md.) -- History.