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Author | : Paul Finkelman |
Publisher | : The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Electronic books |
ISBN | : 188636348X |
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Winner, Joseph A. Andrews Award from the American Association of Law Libraries, 1986. Provides a detailed discussion and analysis of the pamphlet materials on the law of slavery published in the United States and Great Britain.
Author | : Paul Finkelman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Slavery |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Jeannine Marie DeLombard |
Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 345 |
Release | : 2009-06-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0807887730 |
Download Slavery on Trial Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
America's legal consciousness was high during the era that saw the imprisonment of abolitionist editor William Lloyd Garrison, the execution of slave revolutionary Nat Turner, and the hangings of John Brown and his Harpers Ferry co-conspirators. Jeannine Marie DeLombard examines how debates over slavery in the three decades before the Civil War employed legal language to "try" the case for slavery in the court of public opinion via popular print media. Discussing autobiographies by Frederick Douglass, a scandal narrative about Sojourner Truth, an abolitionist speech by Henry David Thoreau, sentimental fiction by Harriet Beecher Stowe, and a proslavery novel by William MacCreary Burwell, DeLombard argues that American literature of the era cannot be fully understood without an appreciation for the slavery debate in the courts and in print. Combining legal, literary, and book history approaches, Slavery on Trial provides a refreshing alternative to the official perspectives offered by the nation's founding documents, legal treatises, statutes, and judicial decisions. DeLombard invites us to view the intersection of slavery and law as so many antebellum Americans did--through the lens of popular print culture.
Author | : Paul Finkelman |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 301 |
Release | : 2018-01-08 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0674982088 |
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The three most important Supreme Court Justices before the Civil War—Chief Justices John Marshall and Roger B. Taney and Associate Justice Joseph Story—upheld the institution of slavery in ruling after ruling. These opinions cast a shadow over the Court and the legacies of these men, but historians have rarely delved deeply into the personal and political ideas and motivations they held. In Supreme Injustice, the distinguished legal historian Paul Finkelman establishes an authoritative account of each justice’s proslavery position, the reasoning behind his opposition to black freedom, and the incentives created by circumstances in his private life. Finkelman uses census data and other sources to reveal that Justice Marshall aggressively bought and sold slaves throughout his lifetime—a fact that biographers have ignored. Justice Story never owned slaves and condemned slavery while riding circuit, and yet on the high court he remained silent on slave trade cases and ruled against blacks who sued for freedom. Although Justice Taney freed many of his own slaves, he zealously and consistently opposed black freedom, arguing in Dred Scott that free blacks had no Constitutional rights and that slave owners could move slaves into the Western territories. Finkelman situates this infamous holding within a solid record of support for slavery and hostility to free blacks. Supreme Injustice boldly documents the entanglements that alienated three major justices from America’s founding ideals and embedded racism ever deeper in American civic life.
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 | : Jenny S. Martinez |
Publisher | : OUP USA |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2012-01-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0195391624 |
Download The Slave Trade and the Origins of International Human Rights Law Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
There is a broad consensus among scholars that the idea of human rights was a product of the Enlightenment but that a self-conscious and broad-based human rights movement focused on international law only began after World War II. In this book, the nineteenth century's absence is conspicuous - few have considered that era seriously, much less written books on it. But as this author shows, the foundation of the movement that we know today was a product of one of the nineteenth century's central moral causes: the movement to ban the international slave trade.
Author | : Jacob D. Wheeler |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 522 |
Release | : 1837 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Download A Practical Treatise on the Law of Slavery Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Mark V. Tushnet |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 444 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : |
Download Slave Law in the American South Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Tying together legal, historical, social, political and literary strands to show how the law itself was implicated in the persistence of slavery, this work sheds new light on slavery and Southern history, as it probes the conscience of a troubled jurist incapable of fully transcending his times.
Author | : Paul Finkelman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 2020-02-20 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781616196431 |
Download Slavery in the Courtroom (1985) Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Winner, Joseph A. Andrews Award from the American Association of Law Libraries, 1986. Provides a detailed discussion and analysis of the pamphlet materials on the law of slavery published in the United States and Great Britain.
Author | : Don Edward Fehrenbacher |
Publisher | : Galaxy Books |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780195028836 |
Download Slavery, Law, and Politics Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Abridged ed. of the author's The Dred Scott case, its significance in American law and politics.