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Lecture - The Freedom Suits of Southern Maryland,...
Join Dr. William G. Thomas III, author and history professor from University of Nebraska-Lincoln, to discuss the freedom suits and the families of Southern Maryland featured in his prize-winning book, A Question of Freedom: The Families Who Challenged Slavery from the Nation’s Founding to the Civil War. For over seventy years and five generations, the enslaved families on the Western Shore of Maryland filed hundreds of suits for their freedom against a powerful circle of slaveholders, taking their cause all the way to the Supreme Court.
Lecture - The Freedom Suits of Southern Maryland,...
Join Dr. William G. Thomas III, author and history professor from University of Nebraska-Lincoln, to discuss the freedom suits and the families of Southern Maryland featured in his prize-winning book, A Question of Freedom: The Families Who Challenged Slavery from the Nation’s Founding to the Civil War. For over seventy years and five generations, the enslaved families on the Western Shore of Maryland filed hundreds of suits for their freedom against a powerful circle of slaveholders, taking their cause all the way to the Supreme Court.