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Freedom’s edge: Enslaved people, manumission, and the law in the eighteenth-century South Atlantic world

Marquez, John C.University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign2019

… Edge” explores how enslaved people in the South Atlantic world engaged with the law to achieve their manumission, or legal freedom. Drawing on freedom letters, petitions, legal suits, and other kinds of evidence from the eighteenth century, my analysis focuses on enslaved peoples’ social …

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