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Paperback The Trouble with Minna: A Case of Slavery and Emancipation in the Antebellum North Book
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ISBN: 1469661470

ISBN13: 9781469661476

The Trouble with Minna: A Case of Slavery and Emancipation in the Antebellum North

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In this intriguing book, Hendrik Hartog uses a forgotten 1840 case to explore the regime of gradual emancipation that took place in New Jersey over the first half of the nineteenth century. In Minna's case, white people fought over who would pay for the costs of caring for a dependent, apparently enslaved, woman. Hartog marks how the peculiar language mobilized by the debate--about care as a "mere voluntary courtesy"--became routine in a wide range...

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