Seeking Justice

The amazing story of one illegally enslaved Virginia family’s dauntless legal appeal for freedom Before the Civil War brought emancipation to the South, some enslaved people managed to use the legal system—the same one that had concocted and long perpetuated their bondage—to sue for their freedom from owners who unlawfully held them in slavery. In Seeking Justice , Daniel Thorp tells the story behind Unis v. Charlton’s Administrator , one of the most extensive of these freedom suits in all of Am