In Between Slavery and Freedom, Julie Winch explores the complex world of those people of African birth or descent who occupied the “borderlands” between sl

Using the writings of slaves and former slaves, as well as commentaries on slavery, Between Slavery and Freedom explores the American slave experience to gain a

Examines the history of slavery in Maryland and discusses the conditions of life of Maryland's slaves and free Blacks.

Most treatments of slavery, politics, and expansion in the early American republic focus narrowly on congressional debates and the inaction of elite "founding f

The story of the longest and most complex legal challenge to slavery in American history For over seventy years and five generations, the enslaved families of P