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IHC Event | Giuliana Perrone, Nothing More than Freedom

May 16 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Join us for a dialogue between Giuliana Perrone (History) and Jeannine DeLombard (English) about Perrone’s new book, Nothing More than Freedom: The Failure of Abolition in American Law. Refreshments will be served.
Nothing More than Freedom: The Failure of Abolition in American Law (Cambridge University Press, 2023)
Nothing More than Freedom explores the long and complex legal history of Black freedom in the United States. From the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment in 1865 until the end of Reconstruction in 1877, supreme courts in former slave states decided approximately 700 lawsuits associated with the struggle for Black freedom and equal citizenship. This litigation – the majority through private law – triggered questions about American liberty and reassessed the nation’s legal and political order following the Civil War. Judicial decisions set the terms of debates about racial identity, civil rights, and national belonging, and established that slavery, as a legal institution and social practice, remained actionable in American law well after its ostensible demise. The verdicts determined how unresolved facets of slavery would undercut ongoing efforts for abolition and the realization of equality. Insightful and compelling, this work makes an important intervention in the history of post-Civil War law.
Giuliana Perrone is Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research focuses on the history of slavery, abolition, and race in North America, American socio-legal history, the history of the Civil War and Reconstruction, and the development of American political institutions.
Sponsored by the IHC’s Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment
Free to attend; visit the IHC event page for more information: bit.ly/Perrone-IHC

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Date:
May 16
Time:
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
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Website:
bit.ly/Perrone-IHC

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UCSB Interdisciplinary Humanities Center
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Email
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