Family bonds : free Blacks and re-enslavement law in Antebellum Virginia / Ted Maris-Wolf, the University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill.
Between 1854 and 1864, more than 100 free African Americans in Virginia proposed to enslave themselves and, in some cases, their children. Ted Maris-Wolf explains this phenomenon as a response to state legislation that forced them to make a terrible choice: leave enslaved loved ones behind for freed...
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Freedom bound in a new republic
- Black clients, white attorneys
- The Doswell brothers demand a law
- Family and freedom in the neighborhood
- To Liberia and back
- Family bonds and Civil War
- The barber of Boydton
- Conclusion.