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100 1  Thomas, William G.,|d1964-|eauthor. 
245 12 A question of freedom :|bthe families who challenged 
       slavery from the nation's founding to the Civil War /
       |cWilliam G. Thomas III. 
246 30 Families who challenged slavery from the nation's founding
       to the Civil War 
264  1 New Haven :|bYale University Press,|c[2020] 
264  4 |c©2020 
300    418 pages :|billustrations, maps, genealogical charts ;
       |c25 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-392) and 
       index. 
505 0  Prologue: Georgetown, April 2017 -- The planting -- The 
       inheritance. 
520    "For over seventy years and five generations, the enslaved
       families of Prince George's County, Maryland, filed 
       hundreds of suits for their freedom against a powerful 
       circle of slaveholders, taking their cause all the way to 
       the Supreme Court. Between 1787 and 1861, these lawsuits 
       challenged the legitimacy of slavery in American law and 
       put slavery on trial in the nation's capital.  Piecing 
       together evidence once dismissed in court and buried in 
       the archives, William Thomas tells an intricate and 
       intensely human story of the enslaved families (the 
       Butlers, Queens, Mahoneys, and others), their lawyers 
       (among them a young Francis Scott Key), and the 
       slaveholders who fought to defend slavery, beginning with 
       the Jesuit priests who held some of the largest 
       plantations in the nation and founded a college at 
       Georgetown." -- Amazon.com. 
520    The story of the longest and most complex legal challenge 
       to slavery in American history, in which a number of 
       enslaved families challenged their bondage in court. 
650  0 Enslaved persons|zUnited States|vBiography. 
650  0 Antislavery movements|zUnited States. 
650  0 Enslaved persons|xLegal status, laws, etc.|2fast
       |0(OCoLC)fst01120565 
650  0 Enslaved persons|xLegal status, laws, etc.|zMaryland
       |zPrince George's County. 
650  0 Enslaved persons|xEmancipation.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01120540 
650  0 Enslaved persons|zMaryland|zPrince George's County
       |vBiography. 
650  0 Antislavery movements|zMaryland|zPrince George's County. 
650  0 Enslaved persons|xEmancipation|zUnited States|xHistory. 
650  0 Enslaved persons.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01120522 
650  0 Enslaved persons|xEmancipation|zMaryland|zPrince George's 
       County. 
650  0 Enslaved persons|xLegal status, laws, etc.|zUnited States.
650  7 Antislavery movements.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00810800 
651  0 Prince George's County (Md.)|xHistory. 
651  7 Maryland|zPrince George's County.|2fast
       |0(OCoLC)fst01207053 
651  7 United States.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01204155 
655  7 Biographies.|2lcgft 
655  7 History.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01411628 
655  7 Biographies.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01919896 
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