Author: George McDowell Stroud
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Slavery
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
A Sketch of the Laws Relating to Slavery in the Several States of the United States of America
Author: George McDowell Stroud
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Slavery
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Slavery
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
A Sketch of the Laws Relating to Slavery in the Several States of the United States of America
Author: George McDowell Stroud
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Slavery
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Slavery
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Stroud's Slave Laws
Author: George McDowell Stroud
Publisher: Black Classic Press
ISBN: 9781580730075
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
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 twelve slaveholding states. Stroud's book exposed to the world, through its publications in 1827 and 1856, the diabolical nature of legal enactments throughout the South that debased both African people and those who held them in bondage.
Publisher: Black Classic Press
ISBN: 9781580730075
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
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 twelve slaveholding states. Stroud's book exposed to the world, through its publications in 1827 and 1856, the diabolical nature of legal enactments throughout the South that debased both African people and those who held them in bondage.
Slavery & the Law
Author: Paul Finkelman
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780742521193
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780742521193
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
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.
An Inquiry Into the Law of Negro Slavery in the United States of America
Author: Thomas Read Rootes Cobb
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Slavery
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Slavery
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
A SKETCH OF THE LAWS RELATING TO SLAVERY IN THE SEVERAL STATES
Author: GEORGE MCDOWELL STROUD
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Sketch of the Laws Relating to Slavery in the Several States of the United States of America
Author: George M. Stroud
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The Laws of Slavery in Texas
Author: Randolph B. Campbell
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292782780
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
The laws that governed the institution of slavery in early Texas were enacted over a fifty-year period in which Texas moved through incarnations as a Spanish colony, a Mexican state, an independent republic, a part of the United States, and a Confederate state. This unusual legal heritage sets Texas apart from the other slave-holding states and provides a unique opportunity to examine how slave laws were enacted and upheld as political and legal structures changed. The Laws of Slavery in Texas makes that examination possible by combining seminal historical essays with excerpts from key legal documents from the slave period and tying them together with interpretive commentary by the foremost scholar on the subject, Randolph B. Campbell. Campbell's commentary focuses on an aspect of slave law that was particularly evident in the evolving legal system of early Texas: the dilemma that arose when human beings were treated as property. As Campbell points out, defining slaves as moveable property, or chattel, presented a serious difficulty to those who wrote and interpreted the law because, unlike any other form of property, slaves were sentient beings. They were held responsible for their crimes, and in numerous other ways statute and case law dealing with slavery recognized the humanness of the enslaved. Attempts to protect the property rights of slave owners led to increasingly restrictive laws—including laws concerning free blacks—that were difficult to uphold. The documents in this collection reveal both the roots of the dilemma and its inevitable outcome.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292782780
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
The laws that governed the institution of slavery in early Texas were enacted over a fifty-year period in which Texas moved through incarnations as a Spanish colony, a Mexican state, an independent republic, a part of the United States, and a Confederate state. This unusual legal heritage sets Texas apart from the other slave-holding states and provides a unique opportunity to examine how slave laws were enacted and upheld as political and legal structures changed. The Laws of Slavery in Texas makes that examination possible by combining seminal historical essays with excerpts from key legal documents from the slave period and tying them together with interpretive commentary by the foremost scholar on the subject, Randolph B. Campbell. Campbell's commentary focuses on an aspect of slave law that was particularly evident in the evolving legal system of early Texas: the dilemma that arose when human beings were treated as property. As Campbell points out, defining slaves as moveable property, or chattel, presented a serious difficulty to those who wrote and interpreted the law because, unlike any other form of property, slaves were sentient beings. They were held responsible for their crimes, and in numerous other ways statute and case law dealing with slavery recognized the humanness of the enslaved. Attempts to protect the property rights of slave owners led to increasingly restrictive laws—including laws concerning free blacks—that were difficult to uphold. The documents in this collection reveal both the roots of the dilemma and its inevitable outcome.
Statutes on Slavery
Author: Paul Finkelman
Publisher: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
ISBN: 1584777419
Category : Slavery
Languages : en
Pages : 794
Book Description
Originally published: New York: Garland Pub., 1988. (Slavery, race, and the American legal system, 1700-1872; ser. 7)
Publisher: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
ISBN: 1584777419
Category : Slavery
Languages : en
Pages : 794
Book Description
Originally published: New York: Garland Pub., 1988. (Slavery, race, and the American legal system, 1700-1872; ser. 7)
A sketch of the laws relating to slavery in the several States of the United States of America
Author: George McDowell Stroud
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Slavery
Languages : en
Pages : 125
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Slavery
Languages : en
Pages : 125
Book Description