Alienable Rights
Subtitle: The Exclusion of African Americans in a White Man's Land, 1619-2000
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Published: December 14, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780060959111
Subjects: United States - General; People of Color; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Histor; History; Sociology; History: American; History / United States / General; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General; Civil Rights; Race relations; United States
First sentence: In 1772, Lord Mansfield, the chief justice of the King's Bench, adjudicated the case of James Somersett, an African slave who had been brought by his master from Virginia to England.