Family Bonds : Free Blacks and Re-enslavement Law in Antebellum Virginia /

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Between 1854 and 1864, more than 100 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 them to make a terrible choice: leave enslaved loved ones behind for freed...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Maris-Wolf, Ted (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2015]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Slavery > Law and legislation.
Freed persons > Legal status, laws, etc.
African Americans > Civil rights.
African American families.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Slavery.
LAW > Public.
LAW > Constitutional.
Noirs americains > Droits > Histoire.
Familles noires americaines > Virginie > Histoire.
African Americans > Civil rights > History.
African American families > Virginia > History.
Freed persons > Legal status, laws, etc. > Virginia > History.
Slavery > Law and legislation > Virginia > History.
Free African Americans > Legal status, laws, etc. > Virginia > History.
Virginia.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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