Author: William Warwick BucklandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 758
Book Description
The Roman Law of Slavery
Author: William Warwick BucklandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 758
Book Description
The Roman Law of Slavery
Author: William Warwick BucklandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 760
Book Description
Slave Law in the Americas
Author: Alan WatsonPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 9780820311791
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
In this book, Alan Watson argues that the slave laws of North and South America--the written codes defining the relationship of masters to slaves--reflect not so much the culture and society of the various colonies but the legal traditions of England, Europe, and ancient Rome. A pathbreaking study concerned as much with the nature of comparative law as the specific subject of the law of slavery, Slave Law in the Americas posits an essential distance in the Western legal tradition between the tenets of law and the values of the society they govern. Laws, Watson shows, often are made not by governments or rulers but by jurists as in ancient Rome, law professors as in medieval and continental Europe, and judges as in common law England. Bodies of law, often created without reference to particular social and political ideals, are also often transferred whole cloth from one society to another. Tracing the effects of the reception of Roman law throughout Europe (excluding England) and the Americas, Watson reveals the enormous impact of this legal tradition on subsequent lawmakers operating under utterly dissimilar social and political conditions in the New World. Slave law in the colonies, Watson demonstrates, had much to do with the mother country's relations to Roman law. Spain, Portugal, France, and the United Dutch Provinces, all within the Roman legal tradition, imposed on their colonies slave laws that were private and nonracist in character, laws that interfered little in master-slave relations and provided for the relative ease of manumission and the grant of citizenship to freed slaves. England, however, did not ascribe to Roman law and colonists created rather than received slave law. Public and racist, slave law in the English colonies uniquely reflected local concerns, involving every citizen in the protection and perpetuation of slavery, strictly regulating education, manumission, and citizenship status. "Comparative legal history," Watson writes, "is in its infancy." Presenting the laws of slavery in ancient Rome and in the slaveholding colonies of America, Watson demonstrates how comparative law can elucidate the relationship of law, legal rules, and institutions to the society in which they operate. Investigating not the dynamics of slavery but of slave law, he reveals the working of a legal culture and its peculiar history.
Slavery in the Late Roman World, AD 275–425
Author: Kyle HarperPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139504061
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 627
Book Description
Capitalizing on the rich historical record of late antiquity, and employing sophisticated methodologies from social and economic history, this book reinterprets the end of Roman slavery. Kyle Harper challenges traditional interpretations of a transition from antiquity to the Middle Ages, arguing instead that a deep divide runs through 'late antiquity', separating the Roman slave system from its early medieval successors. In the process, he covers the economic, social and institutional dimensions of ancient slavery and presents the most comprehensive analytical treatment of a pre-modern slave system now available. By scouring the late antique record, he has uncovered a wealth of new material, providing fresh insights into the ancient slave system, including slavery's role in agriculture and textile production, its relation to sexual exploitation, and the dynamics of social honor. By demonstrating the vitality of slavery into the later Roman empire, the author shows that Christianity triumphed amidst a genuine slave society.
Slavery in the Roman World
Author: Sandra R. JoshelPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521535018
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
A lively and comprehensive overview of Roman slavery, ideal for introductory-level students of the ancient Mediterranean world.
The Roman Law of Slavery; the Condition of the Slave in Private Law from Augustus to Justinian
Author: William Warwick BucklandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Slavery (Roman law)
Languages : en
Pages : 735
Book Description
The Roman Law of Slavery: the Condition of the Slave in Private Law from Augustus to Justinian
Author: W. W. BucklandThe Roman Law of Slavery
Author: William Warwick BucklandPublisher: Nabu Press
ISBN: 9781294371519
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 758
Book Description
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An Inquiry Into the Law of Negro Slavery in the United States of America
Author: Thomas Read Rootes CobbPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Slavery
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
Gender, Manumission, and the Roman Freedwoman
Author: Matthew J. PerryPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107040310
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
This book explores the institution of manumission-the freeing of slaves-in ancient Rome from a gendered perspective. Rome was unique among ancient polities in that it bestowed freed slaves with full citizenship, granting them rights nearly equal to those of freeborn individuals. The sexual identities of a female slave and a female citizen were fundamentally incompatible, as the former was principally defined by her sexual availability and the latter by her sexual integrity. Accordingly, those evaluating the manumission process needed to reconcile a woman's experiences as a slave with the expectations and moral rigor required of the female citizen.