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Author:

Harris, J. William, 1946-

Title:

The hanging of Thomas Jeremiah : a free Black man's encounter with liberty / J. William Harris.

Publisher:

Yale University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2009

Description:

223 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Jeremiah, Thomas,--d. 1775--Trials, litigation, etc.
Free African Americans--Charleston--Charleston--Social conditions.
Free African Americans--Legal status, laws, etc.--Charleston.--Charleston.
Liberty--History--United States--History--18th century.
Liberty--History--United States--History--18th century.
Slavery--United States--History--18th century.
Charleston (S.C.)--Race relations--18th century.
Charleston (S.C.)--Social conditions--18th century.
Laurens, Henry,--1724-1792.
Campbell, William,--1745-1781.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [167]-210) and index.

Contents:

Trials -- Liberty and slavery. "Slavery may truly be said to be the peculiar curse of this land" ; "Those natural and inherent rights that we all feel, and know, as men" ; "God will deliver his own people from slavery" -- Liberty's trials. "A plan, for instigating the slaves to insurrection" ; "The young King was about to alter the world, & set the Negroes free" ; "Dark, hellish plots" ; "Justice is satisfied" -- Thomas Jeremiah and the historians.

ISBN:

0300152140 (clothbound : alk. paper)
9780300152142 (clothbound : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)317471810

LCCN:

2009015233

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Carroll)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

KJPF566 -- Fort Madison Public Library (Fort Madison)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)

AXPF626 -- Oskaloosa Public Library (Oskaloosa)

GZPE631 -- Pella Public Library (Pella)

PMAX975 -- Morningside University - Hickman-Johnson-Furrow Library (Sioux City)

WHPE115 -- Storm Lake Public Library (Storm Lake)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)

DPPE403 -- Kendall Young Library (Webster City)