CSPAN3 Slavery And The Freedom Trials April 19, 2015
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 recor...