Hendrik Hartog writes: "For starters, we ought to move beyond our conventional understanding of the relationship of slavery to freedom. Our “neo-abolitionist” commitment to the notion of an antinomic relationship between slavery and freedom, of a binary with an excluded middle, leaves us without resources to understand the in-between legal culture, neither “slave” nor “free,” … Continue reading Hartog on Learning from the Legal Culture of Gradual Emancipation | @ProcessHistory