… for assistance, consider the different legal standards for freedom and slavery that are being employed in this case. … enslaved individual have to contend against to prove his freedom, even though most agreed that he had been born free? …
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… For Edward, a 27-year old enslaved man in New York, freedom was contingent on eleven years’ unpaid labor for … a few months. Moreover, the modifying condition that his freedom is also contingent on whether he “behave[d] himself” …
Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition
… Kars for Blood on the River: A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast We also are pleased to honor the … Marie Johnson for Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World. In a year in which …
… its people, and their cultures. She is the author of House of Windows: Portraits from a Jerusalem Neighborhood … , Bookforum, the Boston Globe, New York Newsday, Tin House, and on the World Service of the BBC. She is formerly …