ABSTRACT
The conclusion summarizes shortly the findings of this work. Legal stories by (formerly) enslaved individuals are crucial to understanding life in enslavement and different forms of resistance thereto, of which action in court was a very prominent one. These narrations reflect individual human behavior, as well as relationships with family, knowledge, life experiences, worldviews, and moral concepts. As narratives of the past and present shape our understanding of the world and the society that we live in, this book challenges entrenched systems of domination like racism, sexism, and class elitism, by disrupting prevailing white, supremacist perspectives with those of the (formerly) enslaved women and men.
