Author: North CarolinaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
The Acts of the General Assembly of the State of North-Carolina Passed During the Sessions Held in the Years 1791, 1792, 1793, and 1794
Author: North CarolinaThe acts of the General Assembly of the state of North-Carolina, passed during the sessions held in the years 1791, 1792, 1793 and 1794
Author: Essays in the Earlier History of American Corporations: Number IV
Author: Joseph Stancliffe DavisPublisher: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
ISBN: 1584774274
Category : Corporations
Languages : en
Pages : 992
Book Description
The People and Their Peace
Author: Laura F. EdwardsPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469619857
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
In the half-century following the Revolutionary War, the logic of inequality underwent a profound transformation within the southern legal system. Drawing on extensive archival research in North and South Carolina, Laura F. Edwards illuminates those changes by revealing the importance of localized legal practice. Edwards shows that following the Revolution, the intensely local legal system favored maintaining the "peace," a concept intended to protect the social order and its patriarchal hierarchies. Ordinary people, rather than legal professionals and political leaders, were central to its workings. Those without rights--even slaves--had influence within the system because of their positions of subordination, not in spite of them. By the 1830s, however, state leaders had secured support for a more centralized system that excluded people who were not specifically granted individual rights, including women, African Americans, and the poor. Edwards concludes that the emphasis on rights affirmed and restructured existing patriarchal inequalities, giving them new life within state law with implications that affected all Americans. Placing slaves, free blacks, and white women at the center of the story, The People and Their Peace recasts traditional narratives of legal and political change and sheds light on key issues in U.S. history, including the persistence of inequality--particularly slavery--in the face of expanding democracy.
Essays in the Earlier History of American Corporations: Eighteenth century business corporations in the United States
Author: Joseph Stancliffe DavisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Essays in the Earlier History of American Corporations
Author: Joseph Stancliffe DavisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Corporations
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
The Press of North Carolina in the Eighteenth Century
Author: Stephen Beauregard WeeksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
Acts of the General Assembly of the State of North-Carolina, Passed During the Sections Held in the Y. 1791-1794
Author: A Dictionary of Books Relating to America
Author: Joseph SabinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
Bibliotheca Americana
Author: Joseph SabinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description