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Based on new research conducted in courthouse basements and storage sheds in rural Mississippi and Louisiana, Kimberly Welch draws on over 1,000 examples of free and enslaved black litigants who used the courts to protect their interests and reconfigure their place in a tense society.

Black Litigants in the Antebellum American South

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      Publisher: MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina
      Publication Date: 2/28/2018 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9781469636436, 978-1469636436
      ISBN10: 1469636433
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Based on new research conducted in courthouse basements and storage sheds in rural Mississippi and Louisiana, Kimberly Welch draws on over 1,000 examples of free and enslaved black litigants who used the courts to protect their interests and reconfigure their place in a tense society.

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