Author: MarylandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Session laws
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Laws of Maryland Made and Passed at a Session of Assembly
Author: MarylandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Session laws
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
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.
Gleanings of Freedom
Author: Max GrivnoPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252093569
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century landowners in the hinterlands of Baltimore, Maryland, cobbled together workforces from a diverse labor population of black and white apprentices, indentured servants, slaves, and hired workers. This book examines the intertwined lives of the poor whites, slaves, and free blacks who lived and worked in this wheat-producing region along the Mason–Dixon Line. Drawing from court records, the diaries, letters, and ledgers of farmers and small planters, and other archival sources, Max Grivno reconstructs how these poorest of southerners eked out their livings and struggled to maintain their families and their freedom in the often unforgiving rural economy.
This Abominable Slavery
Author: W. Paul ReevePublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197765041
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
On July 22, 1847, a group of about forty refugees entered the Salt Lake Valley. Among them were three enslaved men, two of whom shared the religion, Mormonism, that had caused them to flee. The valley was also home to members of the Ute tribe, who would sometimes barter captive women and children to Spanish colonizers. Thus, the question of whether the Latter-day Saints would accept or reject slavery in their new Zion confronted them on the day they first arrived. Five years later, after Utah had become an American territory, its legislature was prodded to take up the question then roiling the nation: would they be slave or free? George D. Watt, the official reporter for the 1852 legislative session, reported debates and speeches in Pitman shorthand. They remained in their original format, virtually untouched, for more than one hundred and fifty years, until LaJean Purcell Carruth transcribed them. In this eye-opening volume, Carruth, Christopher Rich, and W. Paul Reeve draw extensively on these new sources to chronicle the session, during which the legislature passed two important statutes: one that legally transformed African American slaves into "servants" but did not pass the condition of servitude on to their children and another that authorized twenty-year indentures for enslaved Native Americans. This Abominable Slavery places these debates within the context of the nation's growing sectional divide and contextualizes the meaning of these laws in the lives of Black enslaved people and Native American indentured servants. In doing so, it sheds new light on race, religion, slavery, and unfree labor in the antebellum period.
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."
Laws of the United States Relating to the Improvement of Rivers and Harbors from August 11, 1790, to March 4, 1913
Author: United StatesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Harbors
Languages : en
Pages : 1044
Book Description
Laws of Maryland, Made Since M,DCC,LXIII
Author: MarylandKentucky – Maryland
Author: Horst DippelPublisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3598440642
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 465
Book Description
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Laws of the United States Relating to the Improvement of Rivers and Harbors from August 11, 1790 to June 29, 1938
Author: United StatesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Harbors
Languages : en
Pages : 824
Book Description
Author: Virginia