Slavery & the Law
Central to the development of the American legal system, writes Professor Finkelman in Slavery & the Law, is the institution of slavery. It informs us not only about early concepts of race and property, but about the nature of American democracy itself. Prominent historians of slavery and legal scholars analyze the intricate relationship between slavery, race, and the law from the earliest Black Codes in colonial America to the passage of the Fugitive Slave Law and the Dred Scott decision prior to the Civil War. Slavery & the Law's wide-ranging essays focus on comparative slave law, auctioneering practices, rules of evidence, and prop…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4616-4234-3
- EAN: 9781461642343
- Produktnummer: 22961786
- Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2001
- Seitenangabe: 480 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 3'811 KB
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Edited by Paul Finkelman - Contributions by Derrick Bell; Jonathan A. Bush; Jacob I. Corré; Michael Kent Curtis...
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