William G. Thomas III is the John and Catherine Angle Chair in the Humanities and professor of history at the University of Nebraska. He is cofounder and was director of the Virginia Center for Digital History at the University of Virginia.
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The story of the longest and most complex legal challenge to slavery in American history For over seventy years and five generations, the enslaved families of Prince George's County, Maryland, filed hundreds of suits for their freedom against a powerful ... SEE MORE