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"This book chronicles the long history of emancipation in the United States through the cradle-to- grave experiences of a unique generation of black northerners. It focuses on the legal and political efforts of the "children of gradual abolition," boys and girls born in the early republican North who, as grown-ups, shaped national and state campaigns for legal equality and the end of slavery nationwide"--
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Contents
Introduction. "Emancipate, Enfranchise, Educate"
Chapter 1. Poor Law, Slave Law, and the Golden Rule: Quaker Antislavery and the Early Modern Origins of Gradual Abolition Policy
Chapter 2. "To Be Born Free" . . . and Bound: The 1799 Gradual Abolition Law and Its Consequences
Chapter 3. Educating the "Rising Generation": Associational Culture and the Politics of Black Schools
Chapter 4. Citizenship National: Slavery, Democracy, and Black Citizenship in the 1820s ##
Chapter 5. Male and Female "Citizens of the State": Rights, Politics, Petitions, and Parties
Chapter 6. Antislavery Legal Culture: The Lemmon Slave Case and the Coming of the Civil War
Chapter 7. The Great Question of Equality Before the Law: The Civil War and Reconstruction
Epilogue. The Two Charlottes
List of Abbreviations
Notes
Index
Acknowledgments
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Sarah L. H. Gronningsater is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania.
