Black Litigants in the Antebellum American South

Based on new research conducted in courthouse basements and storage sheds in rural Mississippi and Louisiana, Kimberly Welch draws on over 1,000 examples of free and enslaved black litigants who used the courts to protect their interests and reconfigure their place in a tense society.

• | Author: Kimberly M. Welch
• | Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
• | Publication Date: Feb 28, 2020
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9781469659152
• | ISBN-10: 1469659158