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Author | : Ariela J. Gross |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 275 |
Release | : 2021-07-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1400823846 |
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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 intruded into the courtroom, often challenging the character of slaveholders who saw themselves as honorable masters. Gross looks at the stories about white and black character that witnesses and litigants put forth in court. She not only reveals the role of law in constructing "race" but also offers a portrait of the culture of slavery, one that addresses historical debates about law, honor, and commerce in the American South. Gross maintains that witnesses and litigants drew on narratives available in the culture at large to explain the nature and origins of slaves' character, such as why slaves became runaways. But the legal process also shaped their expressions of racial ideology by favoring certain explanations over others. Double Character brings to life the law as a dramatic ritual in people's daily lives, looking at trials from the perspective of litigants, lawyers, doctors, and the slaves themselves. The author's approach combines the methods of cultural anthropology, quantitative social history, and critical race theory.
Author | : Ariela J. Gross |
Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 277 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 082032860X |
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This groundbreaking study of the law and culture of slavery in the antebellum Deep South takes readers into local courtrooms where people settled their civil disputes over property. 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. How, asks Ariela J. Gross, did communities reconcile the dilemmas such trials raised concerning the character of slaves and masters? Although slaves could not testify in court, their character was unavoidably at issue--and so their moral agency intruded into the courtroom. In addition, says Gross, "wherever the argument that black character depended on management by a white man appeared, that white man's good character depended on the demonstration that bad black character had other sources." This led, for example, to physicians testifying that pathologies, not any shortcomings of their master, drove slaves to became runaways. Gross teases out other threads of complexity woven into these trials: the ways that legal disputes were also affairs of honor between white men; how witnesses and litigants based their views of slaves' character on narratives available in the culture at large; and how law reflected and shaped racial ideology. Combining methods of cultural anthropology, quantitative social history, and critical race theory, Double Character brings to life the law as a dramatic ritual in people's daily lives, and advances critical historical debates about law, honor, and commerce in the American South.
Author | : William Palmer |
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Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 1841 |
Genre | : Jerusalem |
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Download Aids to Reflection on the Seemingly Double Character of the Established Church Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : William PALMER (M.A., Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford.) |
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Total Pages | : 118 |
Release | : 1841 |
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Download Aids to Reflection on the seemingly double character of the Established Church, with reference to the foundation of a “Protestant Bishopric” at Jerusalem, recently announced in the Prussian State Gazette Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : S. Dyer |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 2020-09-04 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1000165876 |
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This 1897 book, first reissued in 1984, is a key historical document from the early years of accounting, and carefully explains the various points of double entry bookkeeping. Originally intended as a new method of instruction for students of accounting, it now serves to stand as a vital piece of the puzzle of the development of the accounting profession itself.
Author | : Grevile Mairis Livett |
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Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 1883 |
Genre | : Archaeology |
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Total Pages | : 626 |
Release | : 1873 |
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Total Pages | : 840 |
Release | : 1916 |
Genre | : Genetics |
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Total Pages | : 962 |
Release | : 1919 |
Genre | : High schools |
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Author | : William Hazlitt |
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Total Pages | : 516 |
Release | : 1902 |
Genre | : English essays |
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