"A Slave in Nebraska" and Other Black Habeas Activism on the Gilded Age Plains.
Drawing on court records, newspaper accounts, and a remarkable journal, this article presents a microhistory of Till, a Black teenager in rural Nebraska who became the subject of a well-publicized 1890 habeas corpus petition alleging his enslavement in violation of the Thirteenth Amendment. It conte...
| Publicado en: | Western Historical Quarterly Vol. 56; no. 2; pp. 117 - 132 |
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Summer2025
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