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The Hanging of Thomas Jeremiah: A Free Black Man's Encounter with Liberty

By J. William Harris

Book information

Publisher
Yale University Press
Year
2009
ISBN
9780300155693
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1055555 bytes)
Pages
256\235
Time added
2023-05-30 00:09:59

Description

The tragic untold story of how a nation struggling for its freedom denied it to one of its own. Contents Illustrations Prologue PART I. Liberty and Slavery Chapter One. ‘‘Slavery may truly be said to be the peculiar curse of this land’’ Chapter Two. ‘‘Those natural and inherent rights that we all feel, and know, as men’’ Chapter Three. ‘‘God will deliver his own People from Slavery’’ PART II. Liberty’s Trials Chapter Four. ‘‘A plan, for instigating the slaves to insurrection’’ Chapter Five. ‘‘The Young King was about to alter the World, & set the Negroes Free’’ Chapter Six. ‘‘Dark, Hellish plots’’ Chapter Seven. ‘‘Justice is Satisfied!’’ Epilogue Afterword Abbreviations Used in the Notes Notes A Note on Sources Acknowledgments Index

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