Ted Maris Wolf: 1 book
Family Bonds
Free Blacks and Re-enslavement Law in Antebellum Virginia
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
Between 1854 and 1864, more than a hundred free African Americans in Virginia proposed to enslave themselves and, in some cases, their children. Ted Maris-Wolf explains this phenomenon as a response to state legislation that forced free African Americans to make a terrible choice: leave enslaved loved...
