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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Thomas, William G., 1964- author.     Subjects     Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- Maryland -- Prince George's County.     Enslaved persons -- Maryland -- Prince George's County -- Biography.     Enslaved persons -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Maryland -- Prince George's County.     Antislavery movements -- Maryland -- Prince George's County.     Prince George's County (Md.) -- History.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Thomas, William G., 1964- author.       by title:      A question of freedo...         MARC Display

A question of freedom : the families who challenged slavery from the nation's founding to the Civil War / William G. Thomas III. by Thomas, William G., 1964- author. New Haven : Yale University Press, [2020] Subjects Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- Maryland -- Prince George's County.   Enslaved persons -- Maryland -- Prince George's County -- Biography.   Enslaved persons -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Maryland -- Prince George's County.   Antislavery movements -- Maryland -- Prince George's County.   Prince George's County (Md.) -- History. ISBN:  9780300234121 (hardcover : alk. paper) : 0300234120 (hardcover :alk. paper) Description:  418 pages : illustrations, maps, genealogical charts ; 25 cm Requests:  0 Summary:  "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." -- Amazon.com.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Social Science & Philosophy 306.36209 Th Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hilo Public Library Adult Nonfiction 306.36209 Thom Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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