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Date of this Version
8-2024
Document Type
Presentation
Citation
Roshawnna Brinkley, Maternal Chains: Black Women's Legal Battles for Freedom in Pre-Emancipation America; (Research Poster) Digital Legal Research Lab NSF REU Site, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, August 2024.
Abstract
This research examines the use of habeas corpus petitions by Black Women in antebellum America to secure freedom for themselves and their children. Given that slave status was inherited matrilineally, these legal actions had implications for generational freedom. In Dr. Jagodinsky’s Petitioning for Freedom project there are numerous cases of Black Women utilizing Habeas Corpus. This study focuses on these Women's agency in navigating a hostile legal system.
Research poster titled Maternal Chains: Black Women's Legal Battles for Freedom in Pre-Emancipation America; via the Digital Legal Research Lab NSF REU Site, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, August 2024.
Advisors: Katrina Jagodinsky and William Thomas
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Copyright 2024, Roshawnna Brinkley. Used by permission