The Southern Debate Over Slavery Petitions To Southern County Courts 1775 1867
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Author | : Loren Schweninger |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 426 |
Release | : 2024-02-12 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0252056299 |
An incomparably rich source of period information, the second volume of The Southern Debate over Slavery offers a representative and extraordinary sampling of the thousands of petitions about issues of race and slavery that southerners submitted to county courts between the American Revolution and Civil War. These petitions, filed by slaveholders and nonslaveholders, slaves and free blacks, women and men, abolitionists and staunch defenders of slavery, constitute a uniquely important primary source. The collection records with great immediacy and minute detail the dynamics and legal restrictions that shaped southern society.
Author | : Loren Schweninger |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 426 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : African Americans |
ISBN | : 0252032608 |
Slavery and southern society as documented in individual petitions
Author | : Loren Schweninger |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2008-01-10 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780252032608 |
An incomparably rich source of period information, the second volume of The Southern Debate over Slavery offers a representative and extraordinary sampling of the thousands of petitions about issues of race and slavery that southerners submitted to county courts between the American Revolution and Civil War. These petitions, filed by slaveholders and nonslaveholders, slaves and free blacks, women and men, abolitionists and staunch defenders of slavery, constitute a uniquely important primary source. The collection records with great immediacy and minute detail the dynamics and legal restrictions that shaped southern society.
Author | : Loren Schweninger |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : African Americans |
ISBN | : 9780252026324 |
A collection of 180 county court petitions designed to offer as broad a selection as possible and include the voices of all participants: black and white, slave and free, slaveholder and non-slaveholder, male and female.
Author | : Loren Schweninger |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : African Americans |
ISBN | : 9780252026324 |
A collection of 180 county court petitions designed to offer as broad a selection as possible and include the voices of all participants: black and white, slave and free, slaveholder and non-slaveholder, male and female.
Author | : Loren Schweninger |
Publisher | : Univ Publications of Amer |
Total Pages | : 509 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : African Americans |
ISBN | : 9781556559013 |
Reproduces a collection of approx. 15,000 petitions assembled by the Race and Slavery Petitions Project, University of North Carolina at Greensboro from state archives in Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, District of Columbia and Maryland, Florida, Kentucky, L
Author | : Loren Schweninger |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 695 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : African Americans |
ISBN | : 9780886926939 |
Author | : Loren Schweninger |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 509 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : African Americans |
ISBN | : 9781556559013 |
Microform catalog for a collection of 2751 petitions assembled by the Race and Slavery Petitions Project, University of North Carolina at Greensboro from state archives in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, and Mississippi.
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Total Pages | : 441 |
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ISBN | : 0190664282 |
Author | : Emily West |
Publisher | : University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2012-11-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0813136938 |
In the antebellum South, the presence of free people of color was problematic to the white population. Not only were they possible assistants to enslaved people and potential members of the labor force; their very existence undermined popular justifications for slavery. It is no surprise that, by the end of the Civil War, nine Southern states had enacted legal provisions for the "voluntary" enslavement of free blacks. What is surprising to modern sensibilities and perplexing to scholars is that some individuals did petition to rescind their freedom. Family or Freedom investigates the incentives for free African Americans living in the antebellum South to sacrifice their liberty for a life in bondage. Author Emily West looks at the many factors influencing these dire decisions -- from desperate poverty to the threat of expulsion -- and demonstrates that the desire for family unity was the most important consideration for African Americans who submitted to voluntary enslavement. The first study of its kind to examine the phenomenon throughout the South, this meticulously researched volume offers the most thorough exploration of this complex issue to date.