The Trouble with Minna : A Case of Slavery and Emancipation in the Antebellum North /

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"Hendrik Hartog uses a forgotten 1840 case to explore the regime of gradual emancipation that took place in New Jersey over the first half of the nineteenth century. In Minna's case, white people fought over who would pay for the costs of caring for a dependent, apparently enslaved, woman....

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Main Author: Hartog, Hendrik, 1948- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2018]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Slaves > Social conditions.
Slavery > Law and legislation.
Liability (Law)
African Americans > Legal status, laws, etc.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Slavery.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
Esclaves > New Jersey > Conditions sociales.
Responsabilite (Droit) > New Jersey > Histoire.
Slavery > Law and legislation > New Jersey > History.
Slaves > New Jersey > Social conditions > History.
Liability (Law) > New Jersey > History.
African Americans > Legal status, laws, etc. > New Jersey > History.
New Jersey.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • A mere voluntary courtesy
  • Practicing gradual emancipation
  • Who is enslaved?
  • Inferences and speculations.

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