The Eight: The Lemmon Slave Case and the Fight for Freedom
Автор: Town of Clinton Historical Society
Загружено: 2023-12-28
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Presented by the Honorable Albert M. Rosenblatt. Judge Rosenblatt teaches at the New York University School of Law and is a retired Judge of New York State Court of Appeals.
The Eight tells the story of Lemmon v. New York—or, as it's more popularly known, the Lemmon Slave Case. All but forgotten today, it was one of the most momentous civil rights cases in American history. There had been cases in which the enslaved had won their freedom after having resided in free states, but the Lemmon case was unique, posing the question of whether an enslaved person can win freedom by merely setting foot on New York soil—when brought there in the keep of an "owner."
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