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Taking former masters to court: civil cases between former masters and slaves in the US south, 1865-1899

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posted on 2023-06-09, 16:48 authored by Melissa Milewski
This essay analyses the trial records of civil cases between former slaves and their former slaveholders between 1865 and 1899 to consider the different, often competing, ways in which these parties portrayed the antebellum and postbellum worlds. In courtrooms around the post-war South, former slaves and former masters wove diverging narratives about slavery, capitalism and labor, family and authority, and sexual violence. Litigants sought to leverage these tales and their interlinked histories to win legal disputes against each other, while also working to advance their own visions of the post-war world.

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  • Published

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  • Accepted version

Journal

Slavery and Abolition

ISSN

0144-039X

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Issue

2

Volume

40

Page range

240-255

Department affiliated with

  • History Publications

Full text available

  • Yes

Peer reviewed?

  • No

Legacy Posted Date

2019-02-11

First Open Access (FOA) Date

2020-11-25

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2019-02-12

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