Author: South Carolina
Publisher:
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 736
Book Description
The Statutes at Large of South Carolina: Acts from 1838-[1849
Author: South Carolina
Publisher:
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 736
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Publisher:
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 736
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Slave Badges and the Slave-Hire System in Charleston, South Carolina, 1783-1865
Author: Harlan Greene
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786440902
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
The slave-hire system of Charleston, South Carolina, in the 1700s and the 1800s produced a curious object--the slave badge. The badges were intended to legislate the practice of hiring a slave from one master to another, and slaves were required by law to wear them. Slave badges have become quite collectible and have excited both scholarly and popular interest in recent years. This work documents how the slave-hire system in Charleston came about, how it worked, who was in charge of it, and who enforced the laws regarding slave badges. Numerous badge makers are identified, and photographs of badges, with commentary on what the data stamped on them mean, are included. The authors located income and expense statements for Charleston from 1783 to 1865, and deduced how many slaves were hired out in the city every year from 1800 on. The work also discusses forgeries of slave badges, now quite common. There is a section of 20 color plates.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786440902
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
The slave-hire system of Charleston, South Carolina, in the 1700s and the 1800s produced a curious object--the slave badge. The badges were intended to legislate the practice of hiring a slave from one master to another, and slaves were required by law to wear them. Slave badges have become quite collectible and have excited both scholarly and popular interest in recent years. This work documents how the slave-hire system in Charleston came about, how it worked, who was in charge of it, and who enforced the laws regarding slave badges. Numerous badge makers are identified, and photographs of badges, with commentary on what the data stamped on them mean, are included. The authors located income and expense statements for Charleston from 1783 to 1865, and deduced how many slaves were hired out in the city every year from 1800 on. The work also discusses forgeries of slave badges, now quite common. There is a section of 20 color plates.
Homicide Justified
Author: Andrew T. Fede
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820351113
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
This comparative study looks at the laws concerning the murder of slaves by their masters and at how these laws were implemented. Andrew T. Fede cites a wide range of cases—across time, place, and circumstance—to illuminate legal, judicial, and other complexities surrounding this regrettably common occurrence. These laws had evolved to limit in different ways the masters’ rights to severely punish and even kill their slaves while protecting valuable enslaved people, understood as “property,” from wanton destruction by hirers, overseers, and poor whites who did not own slaves. To explore the conflicts of masters’ rights with state and colonial laws, Fede shows how slave homicide law evolved and was enforced not only in the United States but also in ancient Roman, Visigoth, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and British jurisdictions. His comparative approach reveals how legal reforms regarding slave homicide in antebellum times, like past reforms dictated by emperors and kings, were the products of changing perceptions of the interests of the public; of the individual slave owners; and of the slave owners’ families, heirs, and creditors. Although some slave murders came to be regarded as capital offenses, the laws consistently reinforced the second-class status of slaves. This influence, Fede concludes, flowed over into the application of law to free African Americans and would even make itself felt in the legal attitudes that underlay the Jim Crow era.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820351113
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
This comparative study looks at the laws concerning the murder of slaves by their masters and at how these laws were implemented. Andrew T. Fede cites a wide range of cases—across time, place, and circumstance—to illuminate legal, judicial, and other complexities surrounding this regrettably common occurrence. These laws had evolved to limit in different ways the masters’ rights to severely punish and even kill their slaves while protecting valuable enslaved people, understood as “property,” from wanton destruction by hirers, overseers, and poor whites who did not own slaves. To explore the conflicts of masters’ rights with state and colonial laws, Fede shows how slave homicide law evolved and was enforced not only in the United States but also in ancient Roman, Visigoth, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and British jurisdictions. His comparative approach reveals how legal reforms regarding slave homicide in antebellum times, like past reforms dictated by emperors and kings, were the products of changing perceptions of the interests of the public; of the individual slave owners; and of the slave owners’ families, heirs, and creditors. Although some slave murders came to be regarded as capital offenses, the laws consistently reinforced the second-class status of slaves. This influence, Fede concludes, flowed over into the application of law to free African Americans and would even make itself felt in the legal attitudes that underlay the Jim Crow era.
Reports and Resolutions of the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina
Author: South Carolina
Publisher:
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Category : South Carolina
Languages : en
Pages : 1626
Book Description
The early years include principally resolutions, with few reports.
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Category : South Carolina
Languages : en
Pages : 1626
Book Description
The early years include principally resolutions, with few reports.
The Statutes at Large of South Carolina
Author: South Carolina
Publisher:
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages :
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages :
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Message to the General Assembly of South Carolina
Author: South Carolina. Governor
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Category : South Carolina
Languages : en
Pages : 444
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Category : South Carolina
Languages : en
Pages : 444
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Message of Robert K. Scott, Governor of South Carolina, to the General Assembly, November, 24, 1869
Author: South Carolina. Governor (1868-1872 : Scott)
Publisher:
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Category : South Carolina
Languages : en
Pages : 446
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Category : South Carolina
Languages : en
Pages : 446
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Black Charlestonians
Author: Bernard E. Powers
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
ISBN: 1610750705
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
This revisionist work delineates the major social and economic contours of the large black population in the pivotal Southern city of Charleston, South Carolina., historic seaport center for the slave trade. It draws upon census data, manuscript collections, and newspaper accounts to expand our knowledge of this particular community of nineteenth-century black urbanites. Although the federal government codified the rights of African-Americans into law following the Civil War, it was the initiatives taken by black men and women that actually transformed the theoretical benefits of emancipation into clear achievement. Because of its large free black population, Charleston provided a case study of black social class stratification and social mobility even before the war. Reconstruction only emphasized that stratification, and Powers examines in detail the aspirations and concessions that shaped the lives of the newly freed blacks, who were led by a black upper class tat sometimes seemed more inclined to emulate white social mores than act as a vanguard for fundamental social change. Unlike most Reconstruction studies, which concentrate on politics, Black Charlestonians explores the era’s vital socioeconomic challenges for blacks as they emerged into full citizenship in an important city in the South. Choice’s 1996 Outstanding Academic Books List
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
ISBN: 1610750705
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
This revisionist work delineates the major social and economic contours of the large black population in the pivotal Southern city of Charleston, South Carolina., historic seaport center for the slave trade. It draws upon census data, manuscript collections, and newspaper accounts to expand our knowledge of this particular community of nineteenth-century black urbanites. Although the federal government codified the rights of African-Americans into law following the Civil War, it was the initiatives taken by black men and women that actually transformed the theoretical benefits of emancipation into clear achievement. Because of its large free black population, Charleston provided a case study of black social class stratification and social mobility even before the war. Reconstruction only emphasized that stratification, and Powers examines in detail the aspirations and concessions that shaped the lives of the newly freed blacks, who were led by a black upper class tat sometimes seemed more inclined to emulate white social mores than act as a vanguard for fundamental social change. Unlike most Reconstruction studies, which concentrate on politics, Black Charlestonians explores the era’s vital socioeconomic challenges for blacks as they emerged into full citizenship in an important city in the South. Choice’s 1996 Outstanding Academic Books List
Catalogue of the Louisiana State Library, 1869
Author: Louisiana. Law Library, New Orleans
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 160
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Publisher:
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 160
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“The” Public Statutes at Large of the United States of America ... Ed. by Richard Peters
Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 764
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 764
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