The price of freedom : slavery and manumission in Baltimore and early national Maryland /
A stereotypical image of manumission is that of a benign plantation owner freeing his slaves on his deathbed. But as Stephen Whitman demonstrates, the truth was far more complex, especially in border states where manumission was much more common. Whitman analyzes the economic and social history of B...
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Lexington, Ky. :
University Press of Kentucky,
1997
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