{"id":20982,"date":"2012-02-29T04:17:46","date_gmt":"2012-02-29T04:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=20982"},"modified":"2014-12-19T15:15:05","modified_gmt":"2014-12-19T15:15:05","slug":"%e2%80%9cfreedom-by-a-judgment%e2%80%9d-the-legal-history-of-an-afro-indian-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=20982","title":{"rendered":"\u201cFreedom By A Judgment\u201d: The Legal History of an Afro-Indian Family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1017\/S0738248011000642\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cFreedom By A Judgment\u201d: The Legal History of an Afro-Indian Family<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/journals.cambridge.org\/action\/displayJournal?jid=LHR\" target=\"_blank\">Law and History Review<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/journals.cambridge.org\/action\/displayIssue?iid=8486720\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 30, Issue 1<\/a> (February 2012)<br \/>\npages 173-203<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1017\/S0738248011000642\" target=\"_blank\">10.1017\/S0738248011000642<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/drhonor\" target=\"_blank\">Honor Sachs<\/a><\/strong>, Assistant Professor of History<br \/>\n<em>Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, North Carolina<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Forum: Ab Initio: Law in Early America<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On May 2, 1771, John Hardaway of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dinwiddie_County,_Virginia\" target=\"_blank\">Dinwiddie County, Virginia<\/a> posted a notice in the <em>Virginia Gazette<\/em> about a runaway slave. The notice was ordinary, blending in with the many advertisements for escaped slaves, servants, wives, and horses that filled the classified section of the <em>Gazette<\/em> in the eighteenth century. Like countless other advertisements posted in newspapers wherever slaves were held, Hardaway&#8217;s advertisement read: \u201cRun away from the subscriber, a dark <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=451\" target=\"_blank\">mulatto<\/a> man slave named Bob Colemand, 25 years old, tall, slim, and well made, wears his own hair pretty long, his foretop combed very high, a blacksmith by trade, claimed his freedom under pretense of being of an <em>Indian<\/em> extraction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/journals.cambridge.org\/action\/displayFulltext?type=1&amp;fid=8486738&amp;jid=LHR&amp;volumeId=30&amp;issueId=01&amp;aid=8486736&amp;bodyId=&amp;membershipNumber=&amp;societyETOCSession=\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cFreedom By A Judgment\u201d: The Legal History of an Afro-Indian Family Law and History Review Volume 30, Issue 1 (February 2012) pages 173-203 DOI: 10.1017\/S0738248011000642 Honor Sachs, Assistant Professor of History Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, North Carolina Forum: Ab Initio: Law in Early America On May 2, 1771, John Hardaway of Dinwiddie County, Virginia posted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,125,1467,8,3015,6940,20,693],"tags":[9821,264,20757],"class_list":["post-20982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-identitydevelopment","category-law","category-media-archive","category-native-americans","category-slavery","category-usa","category-virginia","tag-honor-sachs","tag-law-and-history-review","tag-virginia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}