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Liberty, Bondage, And The Pursuit Of Happiness: The Free Black Expulsion Law And Self-Enslavement In Virginia, 1806--1864, Edward Downing Maris-Wolf
Liberty, Bondage, And The Pursuit Of Happiness: The Free Black Expulsion Law And Self-Enslavement In Virginia, 1806--1864, Edward Downing Maris-Wolf
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
This dissertation seeks to explain why more than 110 African American individuals proposed to enslave themselves (and, in some cases, their children as well) in Virginia from 1854 to 1864. I examine the act of the Virginia legislature in 1856 "providing for the voluntary enslavement of the free negroes of the commonwealth" and suggest that this law provided some free Afro-Virginian individuals with an alternative to removal from the state and separation from their families (as called for by the sporadically enforced 1806 expulsion law, passed in part to discourage manumissions). I argue that if receiving legal freedom threatened a …
The Political Imaginings Of Slave Conspirators: Atlantic Contexts Of The 1710 Slave Conspiracy In Martinique, Jeffrey Scott Thomas
The Political Imaginings Of Slave Conspirators: Atlantic Contexts Of The 1710 Slave Conspiracy In Martinique, Jeffrey Scott Thomas
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Bondage On The Border: Slaves And Slaveholders In Tazewell County, Virginia, Laura Lee Kerr
Bondage On The Border: Slaves And Slaveholders In Tazewell County, Virginia, Laura Lee Kerr
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C.C Spaulding & R.R Wright---Companions On The Road Less Traveled?: A Reconsideration Of African American International Relations In The Early Twentieth Century, Brandon R. Byrd
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Mobutu And Nyerere, 1960-1979: Trajectories And Creativity In Re-Imagining The Nation, Jonathan Edwards Shaw
Mobutu And Nyerere, 1960-1979: Trajectories And Creativity In Re-Imagining The Nation, Jonathan Edwards Shaw
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
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