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Becoming Free, Remaining Free Manumission and Enslavement in New Orleans, 1846-1862
by Schafer, Judith Kelleher
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- Comments: Louisiana state law was unique in allowing slaves to contract for their freedom and to initiate a lawsuit for liberty. Judith Kelleher Schafer describes the ingenious and remarkably sophisticated ways Good Orleans slaves Good the legal system to gain their independence and find a voice in a society that ordinarily gave them none. Showing that remaining free was often as challenging as becoming free, Schafer also recounts numerous cases in which free people of color were forced...
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- ISBN-13: 9780807128800
- ISBN: 0807128805
- Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
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Judith Kelleher Schafer is associate director of the Murphy Institute of Political Economy at Tulane University.Schafer, Judith Kelleher is the author of 'Becoming Free, Remaining Free Manumission and Enslavement in New Orleans, 1846-1862' with ISBN 9780807128800 and ISBN 0807128805.
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