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River of Injustice: St. Louis's Freedom Suits and the Changing Nature of Legal Slavery in Antebellum America
(2009)Slavery and freedom are central issues in the historiography of nineteenth-century America. In the antebellum era (1820-1860), personal status was a fluid concept and was never as simple as black and white. The courts ...