Becoming Free, Remaining Free: Manumission and Enslavement in New Orleans, 1846-1862 - Judith Kelleher Schafer - Books - Louisiana State University Press - 9780807128800 - May 1, 2003
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Judith Kelleher Schafer
Becoming Free, Remaining Free: Manumission and Enslavement in New Orleans, 1846-1862

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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 New Orleans slaves used the legal system to gain their independence and find a voice in a society that ordinarily gave them none.

230 pages

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released May 1, 2003
ISBN13 9780807128800
Publishers Louisiana State University Press
Pages 230
Dimensions 154 × 232 × 16 mm   ·   354 g
Language English  

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