The Hanging of Thomas Jeremiah : A Free Black Man's Encounter with Liberty.
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- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780300155693
- Jeremiah, Thomas, -- d. 1775 -- Trials, litigation, etc
- Laurens, Henry, -- 1724-1792
- Campbell, William, -- 1745-1781
- Free African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Social conditions
- Free African Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- South Carolina -- Charleston
- Liberty -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 18th century
- Liberty -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 18th century
- 975.7/91502092 B
- F279.C453J474 2009
Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Prologue: Trials -- PART I: LIBERTY AND SLAVERY -- Chapter One: ''Slavery may truly be said to be the peculiar curse of this land'' -- Chapter Two: ''Those natural and inherent rights that we all feel, and know, as men'' -- Chapter Three: ''God will deliver his own People from Slavery'' -- PART II: LIBERTY'S TRIALS -- Chapter Four: ''A plan, for instigating the slaves to insurrection'' -- Chapter Five: ''The Young King was about to alter the World, & -- set the Negroes Free'' -- Chapter Six: ''Dark, Hellish plots'' -- Chapter Seven: ''Justice is Satisfied!'' -- Epilogue -- Afterword: Thomas Jeremiah and the Historians -- Abbreviations Used in the Notes -- Notes -- A Note on Sources -- Acknowledgments -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
The tragic untold story of how a nation struggling for its freedom denied it to one of its own.
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