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Author Harris, J. William, 1946-

Title The hanging of Thomas Jeremiah : a free Black man's encounter with liberty / J. William Harris.

Publication Info. New Haven : Yale University Press, [2009]
©2009

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 South Windsor Public Library - Non Fiction  975.7915 H24H    Check Shelf
Description 223 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [167]-210) and index.
Contents Trials -- Liberty and slavery. "Slavery may truly be said to be the peculiar curse of this land" ; "Those natural and inherent rights that we all feel, and know, as men" ; "God will deliver his own people from slavery" -- Liberty's trials. "A plan, for instigating the slaves to insurrection" ; "The young King was about to alter the world, & set the Negroes free" ; "Dark, hellish plots" ; "Justice is satisfied" -- Thomas Jeremiah and the historians.
Subject Jeremiah, Thomas, -1775 -- Trials, litigation, etc.
Free African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Social conditions.
Free African Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- South Carolina -- Charleston.
Liberty -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
Liberty -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
Slavery -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
Charleston (S.C.) -- Race relations -- 18th century.
Charleston (S.C.) -- Social conditions -- 18th century.
Laurens, Henry, 1724-1792.
Campbell, William, 1745-1781.
ISBN 9780300152142 clothbound alkaline paper
0300152140 clothbound alkaline paper
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