Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1130
Book Description
The Southeastern Reporter
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1130
Book Description
Trial of the Tallapoosa Twenty
Author: Phillip PopePublisher:
ISBN: 9781532356148
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Alabama
Author: Alabama. Supreme CourtPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 768
Book Description
Contents. -- Minor's Reports v.l. -- Stewart's Reports v. 1-3. -- Stewart and Porter's Reports v. 1-5. -- Porter's Reports v. 1-9. -- Alabama Reports v. 1-80.
Reports of Cases Argued and Decided in the Supreme Court of Georgia at the ...
Author: Georgia. Supreme CourtPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 904
Book Description
Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Alabama
Author: Alabama. Supreme CourtPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Laws reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 842
Book Description
Minutes of the Annual Conferences ...
Author: Methodist Episcopal ChurchPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 690
Book Description
Southern Reporter
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ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1566
Book Description
Report of Board of Pardons
Author: Alabama. Board of Pardons and ParolesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pardon
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Report of Special Committee on Judiciary
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Category : Courts
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
The Shadow of Slavery
Author: Pete DanielPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252061462
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Whether peonage in the South grew out of slavery, a natural and perhaps unavoidable interlude between bondage and freedom, or whether employers distorted laws and customs to create debt servitude, most Southerners quietly accepted peonage. To the employer it was a way to control laborers; to the peon it was a bewildering system that could not be escaped without risk of imprisonment, beating, or death. Pete Daniel's book is about this largely ignored form of twentieth-century slavery. It is in part "the record of an American failure, the inability of federal, state, and local law-enforcement officers to end peonage." In a series of case studies and histories, Daniel re-creates the neglected and frightening world of peonage, demanding, "If a form of slavery yet exists in the United States, as so much evidence suggests, then the relevant questions are why, and by whose irresponsibility?" Peonage grew out of labor settlements following emancipation, when employers forbade croppers to leave plantations because of debt (often less than $30). At the turn of the century the federal government acknowledged that the "labyrinth of local customs and laws" binding men in debt was peonage. They outlawed debt servitude and slowly moved against it, but with no large success. Disappearing witnesses and acquitted employers characterized the cases that did go to court. Daniel holds that peonage persists for many reasons: the corruption and apathy of law-enforcement, racist traditions in the South, and the impotence of the Justice Department in prosecuting this violation of federal law. He draws extensively on complaints and trial transcripts from the peonage records of the Justice Department.
