Add to ORKGJason A. Gillmer has interpreted all manner of legal records to tell the stories of people—enslaved and free—who would not otherwise have made the newspapers, or the political record. Gillmer is frank that he intends to deploy narratives free of cumbersome scholarly apparatus, and he delivers on this promise. The stories in this narrative are fascinating, perplexing, sometimes entertaining or shocking. And they tell us a good deal about race and law in the antebellum era
As the Civil War\u27s last shot was fired, Texas held one-tenth of the slave population of all the C...
An article by Victor B. Howard published in the Fall 1982 issue of the Journal of Negro History, pag...
The Law and Slavery in Richmond In Slavery on Trial, James Campbell explores how race, class, ge...
Kimberly Welch has written a superb book. In Black Litigants in the Antebellum American South, Welch...
Fragile Freedom Lawsuits illuminate struggle to maintain liberty Legal historian Judith Kelleher ...
As director of the Race and Slavery Petitions Project as the University of North Carolina-Greensboro...
The seeds for the Civil War were first planted at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1...
While the end of slavery in America was a huge step to provide equality to all, the livelihood of fo...
Only a few decades ago, it was possible to write accounts of the culture or economy of the antebellu...
Slaves’ Voices Reemerge from the Cases in Which They Sought Freedom Historians of the South and of A...
This essay analyses the trial records of civil cases between former slaves and their former slavehol...
This study examines racial violence in Texas during Reconstruction between the years 1865 and 1868. ...
A Case Study of Tenuous Freedom and Tenacious Resistance The best kind of microhistory employs an in...
New court records shed light on the complex relationships of slavery when a slave enlists in the Uni...
Looking at the Challenges of Enforcing Slavery Law professor Steven Lubet focuses on three trials ar...
As the Civil War\u27s last shot was fired, Texas held one-tenth of the slave population of all the C...
An article by Victor B. Howard published in the Fall 1982 issue of the Journal of Negro History, pag...
The Law and Slavery in Richmond In Slavery on Trial, James Campbell explores how race, class, ge...
Kimberly Welch has written a superb book. In Black Litigants in the Antebellum American South, Welch...
Fragile Freedom Lawsuits illuminate struggle to maintain liberty Legal historian Judith Kelleher ...
As director of the Race and Slavery Petitions Project as the University of North Carolina-Greensboro...
The seeds for the Civil War were first planted at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1...
While the end of slavery in America was a huge step to provide equality to all, the livelihood of fo...
Only a few decades ago, it was possible to write accounts of the culture or economy of the antebellu...
Slaves’ Voices Reemerge from the Cases in Which They Sought Freedom Historians of the South and of A...
This essay analyses the trial records of civil cases between former slaves and their former slavehol...
This study examines racial violence in Texas during Reconstruction between the years 1865 and 1868. ...
A Case Study of Tenuous Freedom and Tenacious Resistance The best kind of microhistory employs an in...
New court records shed light on the complex relationships of slavery when a slave enlists in the Uni...
Looking at the Challenges of Enforcing Slavery Law professor Steven Lubet focuses on three trials ar...
As the Civil War\u27s last shot was fired, Texas held one-tenth of the slave population of all the C...
An article by Victor B. Howard published in the Fall 1982 issue of the Journal of Negro History, pag...
The Law and Slavery in Richmond In Slavery on Trial, James Campbell explores how race, class, ge...