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Article: The Southern Debate over Slavery. Volume 2: Petitions to Southern County Courts, 1775-1867.(Book review)
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- The Journal of Southern History
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- May 1, 2009
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The Southern Debate over Slavery. Volume 2: Petitions to Southern County Courts, 1775-1867. Edited by Loren Schweninger. Race and Slavery Petitions Project. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, c. 2008. Pp. [xxiv], 397. $60.00, ISBN 978-0-252-03260-8.)
Historians have long acknowledged the problem of sources in studying the South's peculiar institution. From the diaries of white planters to interviews with ex-slaves, primary accounts of slavery remain notoriously difficult to handle. But as Loren Schweninger shows in this collection, legal records can offer penetrating insight into the everyday lives of masters and slaves. This book contains 180 ...