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Mary E. Hicks, "Captive Cosmopolitans: Black Mariners and the World of South Atlantic Slavery" (Omohundro Institute and UNC Press, 2025)

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Legal Agency and Free Soil Petitions

Mary Hicks explains how enslaved seamen used Portuguese free soil law and legal petitions to contest status and seek freedom.

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