![Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of Arkansas ... in Law and Equity, Etc. [By Albert Pike and Others.] Vol. 1-43 PDF](https://books.google.com/books/content/images/frontcover/fQmNzIGDUooC?fife=w150-h200)
Author: Arkansas. Supreme CourtPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 772
Book Description
Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of Arkansas ... in Law and Equity, Etc. [By Albert Pike and Others.] Vol. 1-43
![Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of Arkansas ... in Law and Equity, Etc. [By Albert Pike and Others.] Vol. 1-43 PDF](https://books.google.com/books/content/images/frontcover/fQmNzIGDUooC?fife=w80-h100)
Author: Arkansas. Supreme CourtPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 772
Book Description
Reports of Cases at Law, Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of North Carolina
Author: North Carolina. Supreme CourtPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 658
Book Description
Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of South Carolina
Author: South Carolina. Supreme CourtPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 842
Book Description
Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of North-Carolina, from December Term, 1826, to June Term, 1828 (-1834). By T. P. Devereux
Author: CAROLINA, North. Courts of Justice. Supreme CourtPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 654
Book Description
Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Alabama
Author: Alabama. Supreme CourtPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
Contents. -- Minor's Reports v.l. -- Stewart's Reports v. 1-3. -- Stewart and Porter's Reports v. 1-5. -- Porter's Reports v. 1-9. -- Alabama Reports v. 1-80.
Legislative Documents, Comprising the Department and Other Reports Made to the Senate and House of Representatives of Pennsylvania During the Session of ...
Author: PennsylvaniaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Legislative journals
Languages : en
Pages : 1098
Book Description
North Carolina Reports
Author: North Carolina. Supreme CourtPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
Appealing for Liberty
Author: Loren SchweningerPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190664290
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 441
Book Description
Dred Scott and his landmark Supreme Court case are ingrained in the national memory, but he was just one of multitudes who appealed for their freedom in courtrooms across the country. Appealing for Liberty is the most comprehensive study to give voice to these African Americans, drawing from more than 2,000 suits and from the testimony of more than 4,000 plaintiffs from the Revolutionary era to the Civil War. Through the petitions, evidence, and testimony introduced in these court proceedings, the lives of the enslaved come sharply and poignantly into focus, as do many other aspects of southern society such as the efforts to preserve and re-unite black families. This book depicts in graphic terms, the pain, suffering, fears, and trepidations of the plaintiffs while discussing the legal systemlawyers, judges, juries, and testimonythat made judgments on their "causes," as the suits were often called. Arguments for freedom were diverse: slaves brought suits claiming they had been freed in wills and deeds, were born of free mothers, were descendants of free white women or Indian women; they charged that they were illegally imported to some states or were residents of the free states and territories. Those who testified on their behalf, usually against leaders of their communities, were generally white. So too were the lawyers who took these cases, many of them men of prominence, such as Francis Scott Key. More often than not, these men were slave owners themselves-- complicating our understanding of race relations in the antebellum period. A majority of the cases examined here were not appealed, nor did they create important judicial precedent. Indeed, most of the cases ended at the county, circuit, or district court level of various southern states. Yet the narratives of both those who gained their freedom and those who failed to do so, and the issues their suits raised, shed a bold and timely light on the history of race and liberty in the "land of the free."
Report of the State Librarian
Author: Pennsylvania State LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pennsylvania
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
Includes catalogs of accessions and special bibliographical supplements.
The Southern Debate over Slavery
Author: Loren SchweningerPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252056299
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
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.