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  • 6 - Back into the Days of Slavery

  • Giuliana Perrone, University of California, Santa Barbara
  • Book:
    Nothing More than Freedom
    Published online:
    04 May 2023
    Print publication:
    11 May 2023, pp 175-202

  • Summary

    Suits related to freedpeople’s marriages – the linchpin of familial legitimacy – put the disabilities of the slave past, rather than newly granted rights, at the center of discussions about freedom and abolition. In each, a domestic conflict exposed the need to consider the previous actions and intentions of freedpeople, and prompted an assessment of how the established laws and customs of domesticity could be applied to those formerly excluded from their protection. Rather than exposing the ways that race and former status determined whether freedpeople were entitled to equal rights, this chapter considers whether former status prevented some rights – including the most fundamental among them – from being enjoyed at all.