Law, Free People of Color, and the Making of the Old South, 1760-1860
Madison Ogletree completed her undergraduate education in her home state at Auburn University. There, she received a B.A. in History and a B.A. in English-Literature (2019). She is now a PhD candidate at Columbia University. Her dissertation “Law, Free People of Color, and the Making of the Old South, 1760-1860," examines the problem of freedom in slave society, the everyday lives of free Afro-Americans, and the law in the nineteenth-century American South.
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