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The Case of the Slave-Child, Med - Free Soil in Antislavery Boston (Paperback)
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The Case of the Slave-Child, Med - Free Soil in Antislavery Boston (Paperback)
Series: Childhoods: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Children and Youth
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In 1836, an enslaved six-year-old girl Named Med was brought to
Boston by a woman from New Orleans who claimed her as property.
Learning of the girl's arrival in the city, the Boston Female
Anti-Slavery Society (BFASS) waged a legal fight to secure her
freedom and affirm the free soil of MassachuSetts. While Chief
Justice Lemuel Shaw ruled quite narrowly in the case that enslaved
people brought to MassachuSetts could not be held against their
will, BFASS claimed a broad victory for the abolitionist cause, and
Med was released to the care of a local institution. When she died
two years later, celebration quickly turned to silence, and her
story was soon forgotten. As a result, Commonwealth v. Aves is
little known outside of legal scholarship. In this book, Karen
Woods Weierman complicates Boston's identity as the birthplace of
abolition and the cradle of liberty, and restores Med to her
rightful place in antislavery history by situating her story in the
context of other writings on slavery, childhood, and the law.
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