While helping organize an event to commemorate the radical abolitionist movements of John Brown and Harriet Tubman, I read an excellent book: Neither Fugitive Nor Free by Edlie Wong. The author explores the issue of freedom suits in the antebellum U.S.: legal suits in which slaves sued their masters for their freedom, made possible by the delineation of free territory where chattel slavery was illegal, and slave territory, where it was. My review of the book is posted here with Feminist Review. I’d can’t recommend this book highly enough!
October 30, 2009...5:44 pm
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