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The hanging of Thomas Jeremiah : a free Black man's encounter with liberty

The tragic untold story of how a nation struggling for its freedom denied it to one of its own.In 1775, Thomas Jeremiah was one of fewer than five hundred "Free Negros" in South Carolina and, with an estimated worth of £1,000 (about

eBook, English, ©2009
Yale University Press, New Haven, ©2009