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A Question of Freedom: The Families Who Challenged Slavery from the Nation's Founding to the Civil War TC_Bestseller Lange begins with an abyssWinner of the Mark Lynton Prize in Historythe story of the longest and most complex legal challenge to slavery in American history "A rich, roiling history that Thomas recounts with eloquence and skill. . . . The very existence of freedom suits assumed that slavery could only be circumscribed and local; what Thomas shows in his illuminating book is how this view was eventually turned upside down in decisions like Dred Scott. 'Freedom was local,'