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Language: en
Pages: 255
Authors: Ryan A. Quintana
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-03-19 - Publisher: UNC Press Books

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How is the state produced? In what ways did enslaved African Americans shape modern governing practices? Ryan A. Quintana provocatively answers these questions
Making a Slave State
Language: en
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Authors: Ryan Alexander Quintana
Categories: Human ecology
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018 - Publisher:

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"Beginning in the early eighteenth century and moving through the post-War of 1812 internal improvements boom, Quintana highlights the surprising ways enslaved
The Willie Lynch Letter and the Making of a Slave
Language: en
Pages: 15
Authors: Willie Lynch
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: - Publisher: Ravenio Books

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Willie Lynch, a British slave owner from the West Indies, stepped onto the shores of colonial Virginia in 1712, bearing secrets that would shape the fate of gen
Making Freedom
Language: en
Pages: 136
Authors: R. J. M. Blackett
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-09-30 - Publisher: UNC Press Books

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The 1850 Fugitive Slave Law, which mandated action to aid in the recovery of runaway slaves and denied fugitives legal rights if they were apprehended, quickly
Slaves of the State
Language: en
Pages: 213
Authors: Dennis Childs
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-02-27 - Publisher: U of Minnesota Press

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The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, passed in 1865, has long been viewed as a definitive break with the nation’s past by abolishing sl