Freedom Suit
- Title
- Freedom Suit
- Description
- Freedom suits were legal cases challenging slavery in the United States during the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. Examples of legal strategies in freedom suits included importation violations, descent from a free woman, born free, and kidnapping. Through freedom suits, African American litigants organized and pioneered innovative legal approaches to gain their freedom in county, state, and federal courts.
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- Title
- Freedom Suit
- Description
- Freedom suits were legal cases challenging slavery in the United States during the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. Examples of legal strategies in freedom suits included importation violations, descent from a free woman, born free, and kidnapping. Through freedom suits, African American litigants organized and pioneered innovative legal approaches to gain their freedom in county, state, and federal courts.
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