Author: Stratton NottinghamPublisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 9780806315898
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
The Eastern Shore of Maryland
Author: Enoch Pratt Free LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Wills and Administrations, Accomack County, Virginia, 1663-1800
Author: Stratton NottinghamPublisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 9780806315898
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
North Branch Potomac River Basin
Author: Skelly and LoyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mine drainage
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Holloways of the Eastern Shore and Descendants Near & Far, 1066-1985
Author: Bessie Gibbes Cheatham HollowayPublisher: Southern Coastal Family Planning
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
John Holloway (1580-1643) emigrated from England to Accomack (later Northampton) County, Virginia during or before 1633/1634. Descendants and relatives lived in Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, Ohio, Kansas, Oklahoma, California and elsewhere. Includes ancestors in England to 1066 A.D.
The Sharp(e) Family Part 2A
Author: Maryland Genealogical Society Bulletin
Author: Somerset County, Maryland Wills
Author: Bloomington Lake, Pre-impoundment Study
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bloomington Lake (Md. and W. Va.)
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Maryland Historical Magazine
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Maryland
Languages : en
Pages : 878
Book Description
Includes the proceedings of the society.
Southern Slavery and the Law, 1619-1860
Author: Thomas D. MorrisPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807864307
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
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.