Liberty’s Chain

Autobiography and Biography, Law, Reviews, Slavery and Indentured Servitude July 25, 2022 July 25, 2022

Liberty’s Chain: Slavery, Abolition, and the Jay Family of New York

by Jeff Broadwater

BOOK REVIEW: Liberty’s Chain: Slavery, Abolition, and the Jay Family of New York by David N. Gellman (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2022) America’s Founders…

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