Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368749536
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1841.
Acts Passed at the Annual Session of the General Assembly of the State of Alabama, Begun and Held in the City of Tuscaloosa, on the First Monday in November, 1840
Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368749536
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1841.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368749536
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1841.
Acts of the Session of ... of the General Assembly of Alabama
Author: Alabama
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Legislative Documents, Comprising the Department and Other Reports Made to the Senate and House of Representatives of Pennsylvania During the Session of ...
Author: Pennsylvania
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Legislative journals
Languages : en
Pages : 810
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Legislative journals
Languages : en
Pages : 810
Book Description
The Southern Debate over Slavery
Author: Loren Schweninger
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252056299
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
An incomparably rich source of period information, the second volume of The Southern Debate over Slavery offers a representative and extraordinary sampling of the thousands of petitions about issues of race and slavery that southerners submitted to county courts between the American Revolution and Civil War. These petitions, filed by slaveholders and nonslaveholders, slaves and free blacks, women and men, abolitionists and staunch defenders of slavery, constitute a uniquely important primary source. The collection records with great immediacy and minute detail the dynamics and legal restrictions that shaped southern society.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252056299
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
An incomparably rich source of period information, the second volume of The Southern Debate over Slavery offers a representative and extraordinary sampling of the thousands of petitions about issues of race and slavery that southerners submitted to county courts between the American Revolution and Civil War. These petitions, filed by slaveholders and nonslaveholders, slaves and free blacks, women and men, abolitionists and staunch defenders of slavery, constitute a uniquely important primary source. The collection records with great immediacy and minute detail the dynamics and legal restrictions that shaped southern society.
A Check List of Alabama Imprints, 1807-1870
Author: Rhoda Coleman Ellison
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alabama
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alabama
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Acts of the Called Session, 1863
Author: Alabama
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alabama
Languages : en
Pages : 808
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alabama
Languages : en
Pages : 808
Book Description
Appealing for Liberty
Author: Loren Schweninger
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190664290
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 441
Book Description
Dred Scott and his landmark Supreme Court case are ingrained in the national memory, but he was just one of multitudes who appealed for their freedom in courtrooms across the country. Appealing for Liberty is the most comprehensive study to give voice to these African Americans, drawing from more than 2,000 suits and from the testimony of more than 4,000 plaintiffs from the Revolutionary era to the Civil War. Through the petitions, evidence, and testimony introduced in these court proceedings, the lives of the enslaved come sharply and poignantly into focus, as do many other aspects of southern society such as the efforts to preserve and re-unite black families. This book depicts in graphic terms, the pain, suffering, fears, and trepidations of the plaintiffs while discussing the legal systemlawyers, judges, juries, and testimonythat made judgments on their "causes," as the suits were often called. Arguments for freedom were diverse: slaves brought suits claiming they had been freed in wills and deeds, were born of free mothers, were descendants of free white women or Indian women; they charged that they were illegally imported to some states or were residents of the free states and territories. Those who testified on their behalf, usually against leaders of their communities, were generally white. So too were the lawyers who took these cases, many of them men of prominence, such as Francis Scott Key. More often than not, these men were slave owners themselves-- complicating our understanding of race relations in the antebellum period. A majority of the cases examined here were not appealed, nor did they create important judicial precedent. Indeed, most of the cases ended at the county, circuit, or district court level of various southern states. Yet the narratives of both those who gained their freedom and those who failed to do so, and the issues their suits raised, shed a bold and timely light on the history of race and liberty in the "land of the free."
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190664290
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 441
Book Description
Dred Scott and his landmark Supreme Court case are ingrained in the national memory, but he was just one of multitudes who appealed for their freedom in courtrooms across the country. Appealing for Liberty is the most comprehensive study to give voice to these African Americans, drawing from more than 2,000 suits and from the testimony of more than 4,000 plaintiffs from the Revolutionary era to the Civil War. Through the petitions, evidence, and testimony introduced in these court proceedings, the lives of the enslaved come sharply and poignantly into focus, as do many other aspects of southern society such as the efforts to preserve and re-unite black families. This book depicts in graphic terms, the pain, suffering, fears, and trepidations of the plaintiffs while discussing the legal systemlawyers, judges, juries, and testimonythat made judgments on their "causes," as the suits were often called. Arguments for freedom were diverse: slaves brought suits claiming they had been freed in wills and deeds, were born of free mothers, were descendants of free white women or Indian women; they charged that they were illegally imported to some states or were residents of the free states and territories. Those who testified on their behalf, usually against leaders of their communities, were generally white. So too were the lawyers who took these cases, many of them men of prominence, such as Francis Scott Key. More often than not, these men were slave owners themselves-- complicating our understanding of race relations in the antebellum period. A majority of the cases examined here were not appealed, nor did they create important judicial precedent. Indeed, most of the cases ended at the county, circuit, or district court level of various southern states. Yet the narratives of both those who gained their freedom and those who failed to do so, and the issues their suits raised, shed a bold and timely light on the history of race and liberty in the "land of the free."
The Body in the Reservoir
Author: Michael Ayers Trotti
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807831786
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
Centered on a series of dramatic murders in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Richmond, Virginia, The Body in the Reservoir uses these gripping stories of crime to explore the evolution of sensationalism in southern culture. In Richmond, a
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807831786
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
Centered on a series of dramatic murders in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Richmond, Virginia, The Body in the Reservoir uses these gripping stories of crime to explore the evolution of sensationalism in southern culture. In Richmond, a
National Constitutions / State Constitutions (Alabama – Frankland)
Author: Horst Dippel
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3598440618
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
No detailed description available for "National Constitutions / State Constitutions (Alabama – Frankland)".
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3598440618
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
No detailed description available for "National Constitutions / State Constitutions (Alabama – Frankland)".
Annual Report of the Trustees of the State Library
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 906
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 906
Book Description