O Say Can You See: Early Washington, D.C., Law & Family
A collection and analysis of freedom suits filed between 1800 and 1862, including the tracing of the multigenerational families revealed by these suits. Access the …
A Question of Freedom: the Families Who Challenged Slavery from the Nation’s Founding to the Civil War
“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 …