The case of the slave-child, Med : free soil in antislavery Boston /

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Author / Creator:	Weierman, Karen Woods, 1971- author.
Imprint:	Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2019]
Description:	1 online resource (xv, 164 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	Childhoods: Interdisciplinary perspectives on children and youth Childhoods: interdisciplinary perspectives on children and youth.
Subject:	Med -- (Slave), -- 1830-1838. Free African Americans -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Biography. Child slaves -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Biography. Antislavery movements -- Massachusetts -- Boston. Slavery -- Massachusetts -- History. Slaves -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Massachusetts. African Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Massachusetts. African Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc. Antislavery movements. Child slaves. Free African Americans. Slavery. Slaves -- Legal status, laws, etc. Massachusetts. Massachusetts -- Boston. Electronic books. Biographies. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12354293

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ISBN:	9781613767184 1613767188 9781625344755 1625344759 9781625344762 1625344767 9781613767191
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Summary:	"In 1836, an enslaved six-year-old girl named Med was brought to Boston by a woman from New Orleans who claimed her as property. Learning of the girl's arrival in the city, the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society (BFASS) waged a legal fight to secure her freedom and affirm the free soil of Massachusetts. While Chief Justice Lemuel Shaw ruled quite narrowly in the case that enslaved people brought to Massachusetts could not be held against their will, BFASS claimed a broad victory for the abolitionist cause, and Med was released to the care of a local institution. When she died two years later, celebration quickly turned to silence, and her story was soon forgotten. As a result, Commonwealth v. Aves is little known outside of legal scholarship. In this book, Karen Woods Weierman complicates Boston's identity as the birthplace of abolition and the cradle of liberty, and restores Med to her rightful place in antislavery history by situating her story in the context of other writings on slavery, childhood, and the law"--
Other form:	Print version: Weierman, Karen Woods, 1971- Case of the slave-child, Med. Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2019] 9781625344755

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