Becoming Free, Remaining Free

Judith Kelleher Schafer

Louisiana State University Press, 2003

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Louisiana state law was unique in allowing slaves to contract for their freedom and to initiate a lawsuit for liberty. Judith Kelleher Schafer describes the ingenious and remarkably sophisticated ways New Orleans slaves used the legal system to gain their independence and find a voice in a society that ordinarily gave them none.

ISBN-13
9780807128800
ISBN-10
0807128805
Publisher
Louisiana State University Press
Year
2003
Publication date
2003-05-01
Pages
230
Dimensions
232x154x16
Weight
354