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A Question of Freedom
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 429

A Question of Freedom

The story of the longest and most complex legal challenge to slavery in American history For over seventy years and five generations, the enslaved families of Prince George’s County, Maryland, filed hundreds of suits for their freedom against a powerful circle of slaveholders, taking their cause all the way to the Supreme Court. Between 1787 and 1861, these lawsuits challenged the legitimacy of slavery in American law and put slavery on trial in the nation’s capital. Piecing together evidence once dismissed in court and buried in the archives, William Thomas tells an intricate and intensely human story of the enslaved families (the Butlers, Queens, Mahoneys, and others), their lawyers (among them a young Francis Scott Key), and the slaveholders who fought to defend slavery, beginning with the Jesuit priests who held some of the largest plantations in the nation and founded a college at Georgetown. A Question of Freedom asks us to reckon with the moral problem of slavery and its legacies in the present day.

The History and Antiquities of the County of Leicester
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 920

The History and Antiquities of the County of Leicester

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1804
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Memorial of the Patriotism of Schuylkill County in the American Slaveholder's Rebellion
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 580

Memorial of the Patriotism of Schuylkill County in the American Slaveholder's Rebellion

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1865
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Report of Nathaniel B. Baker, Adjutant-General of Iowa...
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 928

Report of Nathaniel B. Baker, Adjutant-General of Iowa...

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1863
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Includes description of militia activities, rosters of officers and information on quartermaster accounts in Iowa.

Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 770

Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1897
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Report of the Adjutant General and Acting Quartermaster General of Iowa
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 924

Report of the Adjutant General and Acting Quartermaster General of Iowa

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1863
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Confederate Ironclads at War
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 277

Confederate Ironclads at War

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-02-20
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  • Publisher: McFarland

Hampered by lack of materials, shipyards and experienced shipbuilders, even so the South managed to construct 34 iron-armored warships during the Civil War, of which the Confederate Navy put 25 into service. The stories of these vessels illustrate the hardships under which the Navy operated--and also its resourcefulness. Except for the Albemarle, no Confederate ironclad was sunk or destroyed by enemy action. Overtaken by events on the ground, most were destroyed by their own crews to prevent them from falling into Union hands. This account covers the design and construction and the engagements of the Confederate ironclads and describes the ingenuity and courage, as well as the challenges and frustrations of their "too little, too late" service.

History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 814

History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1889
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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First and Second Re-unions of the Thirty-fifth Iowa Infantry Held at Muscatine, Iowa
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 86
The New England Business Directory and Gazetteer
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1778

The New England Business Directory and Gazetteer

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1883
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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