Tyrannicide: Forging an American Law of Slavery in Revolutionary South Carolina and Massachusetts

ISBN-13: 9780820353883 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 240 str.

Emily Blanck; Paul Finkelman; Timothy Huebner

Opis

Uses a captivating narrative to unpack the experiences of slavery and slave law in South Carolina and Massachusetts during the Revolutionary Era. In 1779, during the midst of the American Revolution, thirty-four South Carolina slaves escaped aboard a British privateer and survived several naval battles until the Massachusetts brig Tyrannicide led them to Massachusetts.