Author: Mareike Winchell
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520386434
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Preface -- Introduction -- Claiming kinship -- Gifting land -- Producing property -- Grounding indigeneity -- Demanding return -- Reviving exchange -- Conclusion : property's afterlives.
After Servitude
Author: Mareike Winchell
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520386434
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Preface -- Introduction -- Claiming kinship -- Gifting land -- Producing property -- Grounding indigeneity -- Demanding return -- Reviving exchange -- Conclusion : property's afterlives.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520386434
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Preface -- Introduction -- Claiming kinship -- Gifting land -- Producing property -- Grounding indigeneity -- Demanding return -- Reviving exchange -- Conclusion : property's afterlives.
The Wheel of Servitude
Author: Daniel A. Novak
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813164125
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 145
Book Description
Emancipation brought an end to many of the evils of slavery, but it did not do away with involuntary servitude in the South. Even during Reconstruction, state legislatures passed laws that bound laborers to the landowner with a nearly unbreakable tie—which still chains many a rural black to what a 1914 Supreme Court ruling called an "ever-turning wheel of servitude." Daniel Novak shows how federal, state, and local regulations combined in an undisguised effort to keep southern agriculture supplied with black labor. A freedman who did not immediately enter into a labor contract was subject to arrest as a vagrant. Once a contract was agreed upon, it was a criminal offense for a laborer to fail to carry it out, no matter how unfair the terms might be. If, as was almost inevitable, the freedman fell into debt to the landowner, he could be kept in service until repayment-and exorbitant interest rates and judicious bookkeeping could often postpone that day indefinitely. Novak traces the sporadic efforts of the federal government to do away with this kind of peonage. In studying the details of the legal basis for peonage in the South, he breaks new ground. The institution has aroused surprisingly little interest in the past; this compelling account should do much to establish that peonage is one of the most severe and widespread violations of civil rights in the nation.
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813164125
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 145
Book Description
Emancipation brought an end to many of the evils of slavery, but it did not do away with involuntary servitude in the South. Even during Reconstruction, state legislatures passed laws that bound laborers to the landowner with a nearly unbreakable tie—which still chains many a rural black to what a 1914 Supreme Court ruling called an "ever-turning wheel of servitude." Daniel Novak shows how federal, state, and local regulations combined in an undisguised effort to keep southern agriculture supplied with black labor. A freedman who did not immediately enter into a labor contract was subject to arrest as a vagrant. Once a contract was agreed upon, it was a criminal offense for a laborer to fail to carry it out, no matter how unfair the terms might be. If, as was almost inevitable, the freedman fell into debt to the landowner, he could be kept in service until repayment-and exorbitant interest rates and judicious bookkeeping could often postpone that day indefinitely. Novak traces the sporadic efforts of the federal government to do away with this kind of peonage. In studying the details of the legal basis for peonage in the South, he breaks new ground. The institution has aroused surprisingly little interest in the past; this compelling account should do much to establish that peonage is one of the most severe and widespread violations of civil rights in the nation.
A Collection of the Public General Statutes
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Languages : en
Pages : 902
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Languages : en
Pages : 902
Book Description
A Complete Dictionary of the Law and Practice of Elections of Members of Parliament, and of Election Petitions and Committees for England, Scotland, and Ireland
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Publisher: London: Saunders and Benning
ISBN:
Category : Election law
Languages : en
Pages : 1434
Book Description
Publisher: London: Saunders and Benning
ISBN:
Category : Election law
Languages : en
Pages : 1434
Book Description
A Complete Dictionary of the Law and Practice of Elections of Members of Parliament, and of Election Petitions and Committees for England, Scotland, and Ireland, Etc
Author: John David CHAMBERS
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 764
Book Description
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 764
Book Description
The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments ...
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1080
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1080
Book Description
The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments: the Text Printed from the Most Correct Copies of the Present Authorized Translation, Including the Marginal Readings and Parallel Texts: Genesis to Esther
Author: Adam Clarke
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1048
Book Description
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Languages : en
Pages : 1048
Book Description
The Nineteenth Century and After
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Languages : en
Pages : 584
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
The Law Journal Reports
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1206
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1206
Book Description
The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments: Authorized Translations, Including the Marginal Readings and Parallel Texts, With a Commentary and Critical Notes
Author: Adam Clarke
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385115647
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 834
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1843.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385115647
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 834
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1843.