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Languages : en
Pages : 674
Book Description
The Consolidation and revision of the statutes of the state (of Louisiana), of a general nature prepared by Levi Peirce, Miles Taylor, Wm. W. King
The Consolidation and Revision of the Statutes of the State
Author: LouisianaFugitivism
Author: S. Charles BoltonPublisher: University of Arkansas Press
ISBN: 1682260992
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Winner, 2020 Booker Worthen Literary Prize During the antebellum years, over 750,000 enslaved people were taken to the Lower Mississippi Valley, where two-thirds of them were sold in the slave markets of New Orleans, Natchez, and Memphis. Those who ended up in Louisiana found themselves in an environment of swamplands, sugar plantations, French-speaking creoles, and the exotic metropolis of New Orleans. Those sold to planters in the newly-opened Mississippi Delta cleared land and cultivated cotton for owners who had moved west to get rich as quickly as possible, driving this labor force to harsh extremes. Like enslaved people all over the South, those in the Lower Mississippi Valley left home at night for clandestine parties or religious meetings, sometimes “laying out” nearby for a few days or weeks. Some of them fled to New Orleans and other southern cities where they could find refuge in the subculture of slaves and free blacks living there, and a few attempted to live permanently free in the swamps and forests of the surrounding area. Fugitives also tried to returnto eastern slave states to rejoin families from whom they had been separated. Some sought freedom on the northern side of the Ohio River; othersfled to Mexico for the same purpose. Fugitivism provides a wealth of new information taken from advertisements, newspaper accounts, and court records. It explains how escapees made use of steamboat transportation, how urban runaways differed from their rural counterparts, how enslaved people were victimized by slave stealers, how conflicts between black fugitives and the white people who tried to capture them encouraged a culture of violence in the South, and how runaway slaves from the Lower Mississippi Valley influenced the abolitionist movement in the North. Readers will discover that along with an end to oppression, freedom-seeking slaves wanted the same opportunities afforded to most Americans.
Southern Slavery and the Law, 1619-1860
Author: Thomas D. MorrisPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 9780807848173
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
Specifically, Morris 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.
Catalogue of the Library of Congress
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Alphabetical Catalogue of the Library of Congress
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1240
Book Description
Closer to Freedom
Author: Stephanie M. H. CampPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807875767
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Recent scholarship on slavery has explored the lives of enslaved people beyond the watchful eye of their masters. Building on this work and the study of space, social relations, gender, and power in the Old South, Stephanie Camp examines the everyday containment and movement of enslaved men and, especially, enslaved women. In her investigation of the movement of bodies, objects, and information, Camp extends our recognition of slave resistance into new arenas and reveals an important and hidden culture of opposition. Camp discusses the multiple dimensions to acts of resistance that might otherwise appear to be little more than fits of temper. She brings new depth to our understanding of the lives of enslaved women, whose bodies and homes were inevitably political arenas. Through Camp's insight, truancy becomes an act of pursuing personal privacy. Illegal parties ("frolics") become an expression of bodily freedom. And bondwomen who acquired printed abolitionist materials and posted them on the walls of their slave cabins (even if they could not read them) become the subtle agitators who inspire more overt acts. The culture of opposition created by enslaved women's acts of everyday resistance helped foment and sustain the more visible resistance of men in their individual acts of running away and in the collective action of slave revolts. Ultimately, Camp argues, the Civil War years saw revolutionary change that had been in the making for decades.
Catalogue of the Vermont State Library, September 1, 1872
Author: Vermont State LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Catalogue of the Vermont State Library, ... 1872
Author: Vermont State Library (MONTPELIER, Vermont)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Catalogue of the Vermont State Library September 1, 1872
Author: AnonymousPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382196948
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1872. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.