Liberty's Chain: Slavery, Abolition, and the Jay Family of New York by David N Gellman

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

David N Gellman

544 pages missing pub info (editions)

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In Liberty's Chain, David N. Gellman shows how the Jay family, abolitionists and slaveholders alike, embodied the contradictions of the revolutionary age. The Jays of New York were a preeminent founding family. John Jay, diplomat, Supreme Court ju...

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