2/27/2023 0 Comments Wind of freedom suit![]() ![]() ![]() While upper-middle-class white abolitionists and a tiny black elite pushed the political case, slaves themselves were also fighting for freedom, using whatever tools were available to them. More broadly, VanderVelde’s project and others like it are part of an effort among historians to paint a much fuller picture of slavery and emancipation by including the voices of the people who were enslaved. The cases she found, mostly filed in Missouri, offer a portrait of anguish and of the persistence of individual Americans trying to escape an institution that denied they existed as full people. ![]() Louis Court House, circa 1851, where many cases in which slaves sought their freedom were filed. ![]()
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