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State v. Mann: Lydia’s Journey

Naturally, we don’t know her full name. That we know her at all is only because of a gun aimed

*This post is part of our online roundtable on Robert T. Chase’s We Are Not Slaves. We Are Not Slaves:

One of the enduring ironies of the institution of slavery is that it was wrapped up in the law. While

Surviving Slavery in the British Caribbean concentrates on the question of agency, whereby narratives of life on plantations in Berbice

Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana radically reorients our perspective on Blackness and slavery