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Making Indians “White”: The Judicial Abolition of Native Slavery in Revolutionary Virginia and Its Racial Legacy
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author:
Gregory Ablavsky
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date:
2011
pages:
pp. 1457-1531
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Gregory Ablavsky. “Making Indians ‘White’: The Judicial Abolition of Native Slavery in Revolutionary Virginia and Its Racial Legacy.” University of Pennsylvania Law Review 159, no. 5 (2011): 1457–1531. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41149900.
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Ablavsky 2011
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