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Freedom by Degrees: Emancipation in Pennsylvania and Its Aftermath
Freedom by Degrees Emancipation in Pennsylvania and Its Aftermath
Author: Gary B. Nash, Jean R. Soderlund
During the revolutionary era, in the midst of the struggle for liberty from Great Britain, Americans up and down the Atlantic seaboard confronted the injustice of holding slaves. Lawmakers debated abolition, masters considered freeing their slaves, and slaves emancipated themselves by running away. But by 1800, of states south of New England, o...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780195045833
ISBN-10: 0195045831
Publication Date: 1/17/1991
Pages: 272
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Publisher: Oxford University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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