Author: South Carolina. Supreme Court
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 778
Book Description
Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of South Carolina
Author: South Carolina. Supreme Court
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 778
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 778
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The People and Their Peace
Author: Laura F. Edwards
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469619857
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 447
Book Description
In the half-century following the Revolutionary War, the logic of inequality underwent a profound transformation within the southern legal system. Drawing on extensive archival research in North and South Carolina, Laura F. Edwards illuminates those changes by revealing the importance of localized legal practice. Edwards shows that following the Revolution, the intensely local legal system favored maintaining the "peace," a concept intended to protect the social order and its patriarchal hierarchies. Ordinary people, rather than legal professionals and political leaders, were central to its workings. Those without rights--even slaves--had influence within the system because of their positions of subordination, not in spite of them. By the 1830s, however, state leaders had secured support for a more centralized system that excluded people who were not specifically granted individual rights, including women, African Americans, and the poor. Edwards concludes that the emphasis on rights affirmed and restructured existing patriarchal inequalities, giving them new life within state law with implications that affected all Americans. Placing slaves, free blacks, and white women at the center of the story, The People and Their Peace recasts traditional narratives of legal and political change and sheds light on key issues in U.S. history, including the persistence of inequality--particularly slavery--in the face of expanding democracy.
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469619857
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 447
Book Description
In the half-century following the Revolutionary War, the logic of inequality underwent a profound transformation within the southern legal system. Drawing on extensive archival research in North and South Carolina, Laura F. Edwards illuminates those changes by revealing the importance of localized legal practice. Edwards shows that following the Revolution, the intensely local legal system favored maintaining the "peace," a concept intended to protect the social order and its patriarchal hierarchies. Ordinary people, rather than legal professionals and political leaders, were central to its workings. Those without rights--even slaves--had influence within the system because of their positions of subordination, not in spite of them. By the 1830s, however, state leaders had secured support for a more centralized system that excluded people who were not specifically granted individual rights, including women, African Americans, and the poor. Edwards concludes that the emphasis on rights affirmed and restructured existing patriarchal inequalities, giving them new life within state law with implications that affected all Americans. Placing slaves, free blacks, and white women at the center of the story, The People and Their Peace recasts traditional narratives of legal and political change and sheds light on key issues in U.S. history, including the persistence of inequality--particularly slavery--in the face of expanding democracy.
Reports of Decisions of the Supreme Court of the State of Alabama
Author: Alabama. Supreme Court
Publisher:
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 858
Book Description
Vols. 6-10 include reports from v. 1-8 of Alabama reports (new series).
Publisher:
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 858
Book Description
Vols. 6-10 include reports from v. 1-8 of Alabama reports (new series).
Catalogue of the Library of Congress: Aargau to Lichfield
Author: Library of Congress
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Category : Subject catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 994
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Subject catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 994
Book Description
A Catalogue of the Library of the State of Virginia, Arranged Alphabetically Under Different Heads, with the Number and Size of the Volumes of Each Work Specified
Author: Virginia State Library
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
The Frederick Douglass Papers
Author: Frederick Douglass
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300135602
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 723
Book Description
This volume of The Frederick Douglass Papers represents the first of a four-volume series of the selected correspondence of the great American abolitionist and reformer. Douglass’s correspondence was richly varied, from relatively obscure slaveholders and fugitive slaves to poets and politicians, including Horace Greeley, William H. Seward, Susan B. Anthony, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The letters acquaint us with Douglass’s many roles—politician, abolitionist, diplomat, runaway slave, women’s rights advocate, and family man—and include many previously unpublished letters between Douglass and members of his family. Douglass stood at the epicenter of the political, social, intellectual, and cultural issues of antebellum America. This collection of Douglass’s early correspondence illuminates not only his growth as an activist and writer, but the larger world of the times and the abolition movement as well.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300135602
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 723
Book Description
This volume of The Frederick Douglass Papers represents the first of a four-volume series of the selected correspondence of the great American abolitionist and reformer. Douglass’s correspondence was richly varied, from relatively obscure slaveholders and fugitive slaves to poets and politicians, including Horace Greeley, William H. Seward, Susan B. Anthony, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The letters acquaint us with Douglass’s many roles—politician, abolitionist, diplomat, runaway slave, women’s rights advocate, and family man—and include many previously unpublished letters between Douglass and members of his family. Douglass stood at the epicenter of the political, social, intellectual, and cultural issues of antebellum America. This collection of Douglass’s early correspondence illuminates not only his growth as an activist and writer, but the larger world of the times and the abolition movement as well.
A catalogue of the library of the State of Virginia. To which are prefixed the rules and regulations provided for the government of the library
Author: Richmond Va, state libr
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Catalogue of Books in the Law Department of the Library of Congress. December, 1849
Author: Library of Congress
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Guide to the Study and Reading of South Carolina History
Author: James Harold Easterby
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Category : South Carolina
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : South Carolina
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
A Catalogue of the Library of the State of Virginia ... to which are prefixed, the rules, etc
Author: Virginia State Library (RICHMOND, Virginia)
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description