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02433aam a2200409 i 4500 001 EDEBB1BC4D4311EEBB1CF29156ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230907010029 008 220912t20232023enka b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2022041624 020 $a 1009219197 020 $a 9781009219198 035 $a (OCoLC)1345221928 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d UKMGB $d OCLCF $d YDX $d QGK $d CDX $d WLL $d YDX $d CLU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-usu-- 050 00 $a KF4757 P47 2023 100 1 $a Perrone, Giuliana, $d 1982- $e author. 245 10 $a Nothing more than freedom : $b the failure of abolition in American law / $c Giuliana Perrone, University of California, Santa Barbara. 264 1 $a Cambridge, United Kingdom ; $b Cambridge University Press, $c 2023. 300 $a xv, 316 pages : $b illustrations (black and white) ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Studies in legal history 500 $a Based on author's thesis (doctoral - University of California, Berkeley, 2015) issued under title: Litigating emancipation : slavery's legal afterlife, 1865-1877. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Introduction: An abolitionist vision -- The contract controversy -- Wreck and ruin -- By force it was destroyed -- Confederate reckonings -- Life after the death of slavery -- Back into the days of slavery -- The grave question -- Final failure -- Epilogue: An abolitionist revision. 520 $a "After examining more than 700 lawsuits decided by the supreme courts of former slave states, Giuliana Perrone asserts that slavery remained actionable in American law well after its ostensible demise. An important study for scholars of slavery and the US Civil War"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Freed persons $x History $z Southern States $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) 650 0 $a African Americans $x History $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Slavery $z United States $x History $y 19th century. 776 08 $i Online version: $a Perrone, Giuliana, 1982- $t Nothing more than freedom. $d Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023 $z 9781009219181 $w (OCoLC)1378921867 830 0 $a Studies in legal history. 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20240320010851.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20231004011908.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=EDEBB1BC4D4311EEBB1CF29156ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search