The Eight

The personal and legal struggle of eight enslaved people for freedom in New York in the period just before the Civil War. Gold Winner of the 2023 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in the History category The Eight tells the story of Lemmon v. New York -or, as it's more popularly known, the Lemmon Slave Case. All but forgotten today, it was one of the most momentous civil rights cases in American history. There had been cases in which the enslaved had won their freedom after having resided i