Double Character
Slavery and Mastery in the Antebellum Southern Courtroom
In a groundbreaking study of the day-to-day law and culture of slavery, Ariela Gross investigates the local courtrooms of the Deep South where ordinary people settled their disputes over slaves. Buyers sued sellers for breach of warranty when they considered slaves to be physically or morally defective; owners sued supervisors who whipped or neglected slaves under their care. Double Character seeks to explain how communities dealt with an important dilemma raised by these trials: how could slaves who acted as moral agents be treated as commodities? Because these cases made the character of slaves a central legal question, slaves' moral agency…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4008-2384-0
- EAN: 9781400823840
- Produktnummer: 36317854
- Verlag: Princeton University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 280 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Abbildungen: 17 halftones, 11 tables
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Ariela J. Gross
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