A Question of Freedom: The Families Who Challenged Slavery from the Nation's Founding to the Civil War

by William G Thomas and William G. Thomas

Book Overview

Winner of the Mark Lynton Prize in History--the story of the longest and most complex legal challenge to slavery in American history

"A rich, roiling history that Thomas recounts with eloquence and skill. . . . The very existence of freedom suits assumed that slavery could only be circumscribed and local; what Thomas shows in his illuminating book is how this view was eventually turned upside down in decisions like Dred Scott. 'Freedom...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300234120
• ISBN13: 9780300234121
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.2" x 9.4"