Becoming Free, Remaining Free: Manumission and Enslavement in New Orleans, 1846-1862

Abstract

Fragile Freedom Lawsuits illuminate struggle to maintain liberty Legal historian Judith Kelleher Schafer\u27s book compliments other recent and important studies of manumission and freedom in the antebellum South. Schafer\u27s work, like Stephen Whitman and Christopher Phillips study...