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[A] deeply researched and counterintuitive history . . . Penningroth reframes the conventional story of civil rights." --Matthew F. Delmont, Washington Post A prize-winning scholar draws on astonishing new research to demonstrate how Black people used the law to their advantage long before the Civil Rights Movement.

The familiar story of civil rights goes something like this: Once, the American legal system was dominated by racist officials who shut Black people out and refused to recognize their basic human dignity. Then, starting in the 1940s, a few brave lawyers ventured south, bent on changing the law-and soon, everyday African Americans joined with them to launch the Civil Rights Movement. In Before the Movement, historian Dylan C. Penningroth overtu...

This work uncovers an extensive informal economy of property ownership among slaves. Dylan C. Penningroth seeks to shed new light on African American family and community life from the heydey of plantation slavery to the "freedom generation" of the 1870s.