TY  - BOOK
AU  - Thomas,William G.
TI  - A question of freedom: the families who challenged slavery from the nation's founding to the Civil War 
SN  - 9780300234121
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - New Haven
PB  - Yale University Press
KW  - Slaves
KW  - Emancipation
KW  - Maryland
KW  - Prince George's County
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Biography
KW  - Legal status, laws, etc
KW  - Antislavery movements
KW  - Prince George's County (Md.)
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Prologue: Georgetown, April 2017 -- The planting -- The inheritance
N2  - The story of the longest and most complex legal challenge to slavery in American history, in which a number of enslaved families challenged their bondage in court
ER  -