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In this book, prominent historians of slavery and legal scholars analyze the intricate relationship between slavery, race, and the law from the earliest Black Codes in colonial America to the passage of the Fugitive Slave Law and the Dred Scott decision prior to the Civil War. Slavery & the Law's wide-ranging essays focus on comparative slave law, auctioneering practices, rules of evidence, and property rights, as well as issues of criminality, punishment, and constitutional law.


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  • Author : Paul Finkelman
  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
  • Genre : History
  • Total Pages : 488 pages
  • ISBN : 9780742521193
  • PDF File Size : 9,7 Mb
  • Language : English
  • Rating : 4/5 from 21 reviews

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Slavery & the Law

Slavery & the Law
  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
  • File Size : 32,8 Mb
  • Release Date : 03 June 2024
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In this book, prominent historians of slavery and legal scholars analyze the intricate relationship between slavery, race, and the law from the earliest Black Codes in colonial America to the

Slave Law in the Americas

Slave Law in the Americas
  • Publisher : University of Georgia Press
  • File Size : 42,9 Mb
  • Release Date : 01 January 1989
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In this book, Alan Watson argues that the slave laws of North and South America--the written codes defining the relationship of masters to slaves--reflect not so much the culture and

Southern Slavery and the Law, 1619-1860

Southern Slavery and the Law, 1619-1860
  • Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
  • File Size : 24,7 Mb
  • Release Date : 21 January 2004
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This volume is the first comprehensive history of the evolving relationship between American slavery and the law from colonial times to the Civil War. As Thomas Morris clearly shows, racial

The Roman Law of Slavery

The Roman Law of Slavery
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • File Size : 51,9 Mb
  • Release Date : 24 June 2010
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Buckland's magisterial work of 1908 surveys in detail the principles of the Roman law regarding slavery.

The American Law of Slavery, 1810-1860

The American Law of Slavery, 1810-1860
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • File Size : 31,8 Mb
  • Release Date : 19 February 2019
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In an examination of Southern slave law between 1810 and 1860, Mark Tushnet reveals a structured dichotomy between slave labor systems and bourgeois systems of production. Whereas the former rest on the

Stroud's Slave Laws

Stroud's Slave Laws
  • Publisher : Black Classic Press
  • File Size : 32,6 Mb
  • Release Date : 01 April 2005
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Stroud's Slave Laws had extensive influence upon national legal thinking on the issue of slavery. In a blanket survey of slave codes of the period, he analyzed the statutes of

The Dred Scott Case

The Dred Scott Case
  • Publisher : Unknown Publisher
  • File Size : 30,7 Mb
  • Release Date : 03 June 1978
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1979, The Dred Scott Case is a masterful examination of the most famous example of judicial failure--the case referred to as "the most frequently overturned

The Legal Understanding of Slavery

The Legal Understanding of Slavery
  • Publisher : OUP Oxford
  • File Size : 39,5 Mb
  • Release Date : 27 September 2012
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"Slavery is the status or condition of a person over whom any or all of the powers attaching to the right of ownership are exercised." So reads the legal definition