Harriet. But there are others. Many more xes than pictures. This is lucy delaney who signed an x which you as a child and live to write about it after the civil war. Swansee adams, one of the duncan slaves, which is one of my favorite stories because it is a story in which there is a superb victory for all of the duncan slaves over all of their duncan masters. But behind each of these stories is a family or an individual and, altogether, many of these freedom suits were family affairs. Whether the litigants sued jointly or in succession, a total of 160 persons of the 239 for whom we have records were in the family, they sued as a family. Consider then some of these xes clustered together as mothers and children and brothers and sisters. There are some litigants for whom we have no legal records at all, but of these 153 were women and 126 were men. Most of the petitioners faced based their claim on the fact they were taken to a place where slavery was banned. Here are some other bases a
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