The Trouble with Minna: A Case of Slavery & Emancipation in the Antebellum North

Hendrik Hartog uses the case of Minna, an enslaved woman living in New Jersey in 1840, to explore the complicated gradual emancipation happening at this time in history. The Trouble with Minna (University of North Carolina Press) illustrates how white people fought about who would care for Minna, who was probably enslaved but who may have been free.