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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.

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A remarkably well-researched and truly startling history." - Journal of American History

Black Litigants in the Antebellum American South

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    A Paperback / softback by Kimberly M. Welch

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      Publisher The University of North Carolina Press
      Published 28 February 2020
      ISBN-13 9781469659152
      978-1469659152
      ISBN-10 1469659158
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      Slavery, enslaved persons and abolition of slavery Law Law and society, sociology of law Not Just Books Stationery

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      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.

      Trade Review
      A remarkably well-researched and truly startling history." - Journal of American History

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