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Michael Grossberg's Telling Tale: The Social Drama of an Antebellum Custody Case

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Brook Thomas
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Law & Social Inquiry , Volume 23 , Issue 2 , Spring 1998 , pp. 431 - 458
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Copyright © American Bar Foundation, 1998 

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