Author: Lazarus Whitehead Powell
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Category : Elections
Languages : en
Pages : 48

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Author: United States. Congress
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1010

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Author: Loyal Publication Society
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 866

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Author: Virginia State Library
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 462

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Author: Virginia State Library
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 460

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Author: Albert M. Rosenblatt
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438492669
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 300

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The Eight tells the story of Lemmon v. New York—or, as it's more popularly known, the Lemmon Slave Case. All but forgotten today, it was one of the most momentous civil rights cases in American history. There had been cases in which the enslaved had won their freedom after having resided in free states, but the Lemmon case was unique, posing the question of whether an enslaved person can win freedom by merely setting foot on New York soil—when brought there in the keep of an "owner." The case concerned the fates of eight enslaved people from Virginia, brought through New York in 1852 by their owners, Juliet and Jonathan Lemmon. The Eight were in court seeking, legally, to become people—to change their status under law from objects into human beings. The Eight encountered Louis Napoleon, the son of a slave, an abolitionist activist, and a "conductor" of the Underground Railroad, who took enormous risks to help others. He was part of an anti-slavery movement in which African-Americans played an integral role in the fight for freedom. The case was part of the broader judicial landscape at the time: If a law was morally repugnant but enshrined in the Constitution, what was the duty of the judge? Should there be, as some people advocated, a "higher law" that transcends the written law? These questions were at the heart of the Lemmon case. They were difficult and important ones in the 1850s—and, more than a century and a half later, we must still grapple with them today.

Author: Lazarus Whitehead Powell
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 20

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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 466

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Author: Kenneth Pennington
Publisher: CUA Press
ISBN: 0813214629
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 424

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In this volume leading scholars from around the world discuss the contribution of medieval church law to the origins of the western legal tradition. Subdivided into four topical categories, the essays cover the entire range of the history of medieval canon law from the sixth to the sixteenth century.

Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations
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Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 100

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