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The Trouble with Minna: A Case of Slavery and Emancipation in the Antebellum North
The Trouble with Minna A Case of Slavery and Emancipation in the Antebellum North
Author: Hendrik Hartog
In this intriguing book, Hendrik Hartog uses a forgotten 1840 case to explore the regime of gradual emancipation that took place in New Jersey over the first half of the nineteenth century. In Minna's case, white people fought over who would pay for the costs of caring for a dependent, apparently enslaved, woman. Hartog marks how the peculiar la...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781469640884
ISBN-10: 1469640880
Publication Date: 4/23/2018
Pages: 208
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Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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