The Price of Freedom: Slavery and Manumission in Baltimore and Early National Maryland

By T. Stephen Whitman

The stereotypical image of manumission involves a benign plantation owner freeing his slaves on his deathbed. But as Stephen Whitman demonstrates, the truth was far more complex, especially in the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813120047
• ISBN13: 9780813120041
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"