The Case of the Slave-Child, Med Free Soil in Antislavery Boston

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Tác giả: Karen Woods Weierman

Ngôn ngữ: eng

ISBN-10: 1613767188

ISBN-13: 978-1613767184

ISBN-13: 978-1625344755

ISBN-13: 978-1625344762

Ký hiệu phân loại: 306.362092 Economic institutions

Thông tin xuất bản: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 2019

Mô tả vật lý: 1 online resource (pages cm)

Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở

ID: 196248

"In 1836, an enslaved six-year-old girl named Med was brought to Boston by a woman from New Orleans who claimed her as property. Learning of the girl's arrival in the city, the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society (BFASS) waged a legal fight to secure her freedom and affirm the free soil of Massachusetts. While Chief Justice Lemuel Shaw ruled quite narrowly in the case that enslaved people brought to Massachusetts could not be held against their will, BFASS claimed a broad victory for the abolitionist cause, and Med was released to the care of a local institution. When she died two years later, celebration quickly turned to silence, and her story was soon forgotten. As a result, Commonwealth v. Aves is little known outside of legal scholarship. In this book, Karen Woods Weierman complicates Boston's identity as the birthplace of abolition and the cradle of liberty, and restores Med to her rightful place in antislavery history by situating her story in the context of other writings on slavery, childhood, and the law"-- Provided by publisher.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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