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Voices/C-SPAN/Slaves Suing for Their Freedom

Podcast · 413 episodes on record

Slaves Suing for Their Freedom

Slaves Suing for Their Freedom

Published

December 14, 2019

Length

1 hr 16 min

Type

Full

Position

61 of 413

December 14, 2019

Slaves Suing for Their Freedom

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Slaves Suing for Their Freedom

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1960s African American Voter Registration

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Neutrality and World War I America

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The Civil War in the West

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Summary

University of Nebraska-Lincoln professor William G. Thomas III teaches a class on some of the lawsuits brought by enslaved people who sued for their freedom in the antebellum period.

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