Southern Slavery And The Law 1619 1860

Author : Thomas D. Morris
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2004-01-21
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780807864302

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Southern Slavery and the Law, 1619-1860 by Thomas D. Morris Pdf

This volume is the first comprehensive history of the evolving relationship between American slavery and the law from colonial times to the Civil War. As Thomas Morris clearly shows, racial slavery came to the English colonies as an institution without strict legal definitions or guidelines. Specifically, he demonstrates that there was no coherent body of law that dealt solely with slaves. Instead, more general legal rules concerning inheritance, mortgages, and transfers of property coexisted with laws pertaining only to slaves. According to Morris, southern lawmakers and judges struggled to reconcile a social order based on slavery with existing English common law (or, in Louisiana, with continental civil law.) Because much was left to local interpretation, laws varied between and even within states. In addition, legal doctrine often differed from local practice. And, as Morris reveals, in the decades leading up to the Civil War, tensions mounted between the legal culture of racial slavery and the competing demands of capitalism and evangelical Christianity.

Author : Thomas D. Morris
Publisher : The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Personal liberty laws
ISBN : 9781584771074

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Free Men All by Thomas D. Morris Pdf

Examines the Impact of the Idealism of the Personal Liberty Laws of Pennsylvania, New York, Massachusetts, Ohio and Wisconsin The Personal Liberty Laws reflected the social ethical commitment to freedom from slavery and as such were among the bricks that laid the foundation for the Fourteenth Amendment. Morris examines those statutes as enacted in the five representative states Pennsylvania, New York, Massachusetts, Ohio and Wisconsin, and argues that these laws were an alternative to the violence allowed by the southern slave codes and the extreme abolitionist viewpoints of the north. Thomas D. Morris [1938-] taught in the Department of History, Portland State University and is the author of Southern Slavery and the Law, 1619-1860. CONTENTS I. Slavery and Emancipation: the Rise of Conflicting Legal Systems II. Kidnapping and Fugitives: Early State and Federal Responses III. State "Interposition" 1820-1830: Pennsylvania and New York IV. Assaults Upon the Personal Liberty Laws V. The Antislavery Counterattack VI. The Personal Liberty Laws in the Supreme Court: Prigg v. Pennsylvania VII. The Pursuit of a Containment Policy, 1842-1850 VII. The Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 IX. Positive Law, Higher Law, and the Via Media X. Interposition, 1854-1858 XI. Habeas Corpus and Total Repudiation 1859-1860 XII. Denouement Appendix Bibliography Index

Author : Mark V. Tushnet
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Law
ISBN : STANFORD:36105111931627

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Slave Law in the American South by Mark V. Tushnet Pdf

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 : Ted Maris-Wolf
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781469620084

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Family Bonds by Ted Maris-Wolf Pdf

Between 1854 and 1864, more than a hundred free African Americans in Virginia proposed to enslave themselves and, in some cases, their children. Ted Maris-Wolf explains this phenomenon as a response to state legislation that forced free African Americans to make a terrible choice: leave enslaved loved ones behind for freedom elsewhere or seek a way to remain in their communities, even by renouncing legal freedom. Maris-Wolf paints an intimate portrait of these people whose lives, liberty, and use of Virginia law offer new understandings of race and place in the upper South. Maris-Wolf shows how free African Americans quietly challenged prevailing notions of racial restriction and exclusion, weaving themselves into the social and economic fabric of their neighborhoods and claiming, through unconventional or counterintuitive means, certain basic rights of residency and family. Employing records from nearly every Virginia county, he pieces together the remarkable lives of Watkins Love, Jane Payne, and other African Americans who made themselves essential parts of their communities and, in some cases, gave up their legal freedom in order to maintain family and community ties.

Author : Daniel R. (Daniel Raynes) 1811 Goodwin
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-27
Category : History
ISBN : 1363669605

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SOUTHERN SLAVERY IN ITS PRESEN by Daniel R. (Daniel Raynes) 1811 Goodwin Pdf

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Author : Susanna Delfino,Michele Gillespie,Louis M. Kyriakoudes
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2011-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826272430

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Southern Society and Its Transformations, 1790-1860 by Susanna Delfino,Michele Gillespie,Louis M. Kyriakoudes Pdf

In Southern Society and Its Transformations, a new set of scholars challenge conventional perceptions of the antebellum South as an economically static region compared to the North. Showing that the pre-Civil War South was much more complex than once thought, the essays in this volume examine the economic lives and social realities of three overlooked but important groups of southerners: the working poor, non-slaveholding whites, and middling property holders such as small planters, professionals, and entrepreneurs. The nine essays that comprise Southern Society and Its Transformations explore new territory in the study of the slave-era South, conveying how modernization took shape across the region and exploring the social processes involved in its economic developments. The book is divided into four parts, each analyzing a different facet of white southern life. The first outlines the legal dimensions of race relations, exploring the effects of lynching and the significance of Georgia’s vagrancy laws. Part II presents the advent of the market economy and its effect on agriculture in the South, including the beginning of frontier capitalism. The third section details the rise of a professional middle class in the slave era and the conflicts provoked. The book’s last section deals with the financial aspects of the transformation in the South, including the credit and debt relationships at play and the presence of corporate entrepreneurship. Between the dawn of the nation and the Civil War, constant change was afoot in the American South. Scholarship has only begun to explore these progressions in the past few decades and has given too little consideration to the economic developments with respect to the working-class experience. These essays show that a new generation of scholars is asking fresh questions about the social aspects of the South’s economic transformation. Southern Society and Its Transformations is a complex look at how whole groups of traditionally ignored white southerners in the slave era embraced modernizing economic ideas and actions while accepting a place in their race-based world. This volume will be of interest to students of Southern and U.S. economic and social history.

Author : Merton Lynn Dillon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : 0807116149

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Slavery Attacked by Merton Lynn Dillon Pdf

An examination of the internal and external forces that led to the downfall of slavery in the South. Contending that slavery contained within itself the seeds of its own destruction, Dillon (history, Ohio State) analyzes all of the diverse elements that resisted American slavery--the slaves themselves; nonslaveholding southern whites; hostile outsiders, such as the Spanish and British in wartime; free blacks; abolitionists; and the federal government and its armies during the Civil War. Paper edition (unseen), $16.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : James E. Newton,Ronald L. Lewis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015003671073

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The Other Slaves by James E. Newton,Ronald L. Lewis Pdf

Author : Marion Gleason McDougall
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-18
Category : Law
ISBN : EAN:4064066159399

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Fugitive Slaves (1619-1865) by Marion Gleason McDougall Pdf

"Fugitive Slaves (1619-1865)," edited by Albert Bushnell Hart, is a collection of primary sources related to slavery and the Underground Railroad in the US, featuring narratives from formerly enslaved people, abolitionists, legal documents, and newspaper articles. Contents include: Legislation and Cases Before the Constitution Legislation From 1789 to 1850 Principal Cases From 1789 to 1860 Fugitives and Their Friends Personal Liberty Laws The End of the Fugitive Slave Question (1860-1865)

Author : Paul Finkelman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : African Americans
ISBN : OCLC:1391285243

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Colonial Southern Slavery by Paul Finkelman Pdf

Author : Loren Schweninger
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2024-02-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780252056291

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The Southern Debate over Slavery by Loren Schweninger Pdf

An incomparably rich source of period information, the second volume of The Southern Debate over Slavery offers a representative and extraordinary sampling of the thousands of petitions about issues of race and slavery that southerners submitted to county courts between the American Revolution and Civil War. These petitions, filed by slaveholders and nonslaveholders, slaves and free blacks, women and men, abolitionists and staunch defenders of slavery, constitute a uniquely important primary source. The collection records with great immediacy and minute detail the dynamics and legal restrictions that shaped southern society.

Author : Loren Schweninger
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 0252026322

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The Southern Debate Over Slavery: Petitions to Southern legislatures, 1778-1864 by Loren Schweninger Pdf

A collection of 180 county court petitions designed to offer as broad a selection as possible and include the voices of all participants: black and white, slave and free, slaveholder and non-slaveholder, male and female.

Author : Nancy Christie,Michael Gauvreau,Matthew Gerber
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000193855

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Voices in the Legal Archives in the French Colonial World by Nancy Christie,Michael Gauvreau,Matthew Gerber Pdf

Voices in the Legal Archives in the French Colonial World: "The King is Listening" offers, through the contribution of thirteen original chapters, a sustained analysis of judicial practices and litigation during the first era of French overseas expansion. The overall goal of this volume is to elaborate a more sophisticated "social history of colonialism" by focusing largely on the eighteenth century, extending roughly from 1700 until the conclusion of the Age of Revolutions in the 1830s. By critically examining legal practices and litigation in the French colonial world, in both its Atlantic and Oceanic extensions, this volume of essays has sought to interrogate the naturalized equation between law and empire, an idea premised on the idea of law as a set of doctrines and codified procedures originating in the metropolis and then transmitted to the colonies. This book advances new approaches and methods in writing a history of the French empire, one which views state authority as more unstable and contested. Voices in the Legal Archives proposes to remedy the under-theorized state of France’s first colonial empire, as opposed to its post-1830 imperial expressions empire, which have garnered far more scholarly attention. This book will appeal to scholars of French history and the comparative history of European empires and colonialism.

Author : Randall Kennedy
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 559 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780307814654

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Race, Crime, and the Law by Randall Kennedy Pdf

An "admirable, courageous, and meticulously fair and honest book” (New York Times Book Review) in which “one of our most important and perceptive writers on race" (The Washington Post) takes on a highly complex issue in a way that no one has before. "This book should be a standard for all law students."—Boston Globe In this groundbreaking, powerfully reasoned, lucid work that is certain to provoke controversy, Harvard law professor Randall Kennedy takes on a highly complex issue in a way that no one has before. Kennedy uncovers the long-standing failure of the justice system to protect blacks from criminals, probing allegations that blacks are victimized on a widespread basis by racially discriminatory prosecutions and punishments, but he also engages the debate over the wisdom and legality of using racial criteria in jury selection. He analyzes the responses of the legal system to accusations that appeals to racial prejudice have rendered trials unfair, and examines the idea that, under certain circumstances, members of one race are statistically more likely to be involved in crime than members of another.

Author : Justene Hill Edwards
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231549264

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Unfree Markets by Justene Hill Edwards Pdf

The everyday lives of enslaved people were filled with the backbreaking tasks that their enslavers forced them to complete. But in spare moments, they found time in which to earn money and obtain goods for themselves. Enslaved people led vibrant economic lives, cultivating produce and raising livestock to trade and sell. They exchanged goods with nonslaveholding whites and even sold products to their enslavers. Did these pursuits represent a modicum of freedom in the interstices of slavery, or did they further shackle enslaved people by other means? Justene Hill Edwards illuminates the inner workings of the slaves’ economy and the strategies that enslaved people used to participate in the market. Focusing on South Carolina from the colonial period to the Civil War, she examines how the capitalist development of slavery influenced the economic lives of enslaved people. Hill Edwards demonstrates that as enslavers embraced increasingly capitalist principles, enslaved people slowly lost their economic autonomy. As slaveholders became more profit-oriented in the nineteenth century, they also sought to control enslaved people’s economic behavior and capture the gains. Despite enslaved people’s aptitude for enterprise, their market activities came to be one more part of the violent and exploitative regime that shaped their lives. Drawing on wide-ranging archival research to expand our understanding of racial capitalism, Unfree Markets shows the limits of the connection between economic activity and freedom.