David Menschel

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Abolition Without Deliverance: The Law of Connecticut Slavery 1784-1848

111 Yale L.J. 183 (2001) According to American public memory, slavery in the United States was peculiar to the South. Unless explicitly reminded of the North's history of slavery, most Americans associate the North with abolitionists rather than slaveholders. Alongside this public memory is the work of professional historians that recognizes that slavery existed in the North during the colonial...