Author: Philip J. Schwarz
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820335169
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
The five essays in Slave Laws in Virginia explore two centuries of the ever-changing relationship between a major slave society and the laws that guided it. The topics covered are diverse, including the African judicial background of African American slaves, Thomas Jefferson's relationship with the laws of slavery, the capital punishment of slaves, nineteenth-century penal transportation of slaves from Virginia as related to the interstate slave trade and the changing market for slaves, and Virginia's experience with its own fugitive slave laws. Through the history of one large extended family of ex-slaves, Philip J. Schwarz's conclusion examines how the law shaped the interaction between former slaves and masters after emancipation. Instead of relying on a static view of these two centuries, the author focuses on the diverse and changing ways that lawmakers and law enforcers responded to slaves' behavior and to whites' perceptions of and assumptions about that behavior.
The Statutes at Large
Slave Laws in Virginia
Author: Philip J. Schwarz
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820335169
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
The five essays in Slave Laws in Virginia explore two centuries of the ever-changing relationship between a major slave society and the laws that guided it. The topics covered are diverse, including the African judicial background of African American slaves, Thomas Jefferson's relationship with the laws of slavery, the capital punishment of slaves, nineteenth-century penal transportation of slaves from Virginia as related to the interstate slave trade and the changing market for slaves, and Virginia's experience with its own fugitive slave laws. Through the history of one large extended family of ex-slaves, Philip J. Schwarz's conclusion examines how the law shaped the interaction between former slaves and masters after emancipation. Instead of relying on a static view of these two centuries, the author focuses on the diverse and changing ways that lawmakers and law enforcers responded to slaves' behavior and to whites' perceptions of and assumptions about that behavior.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820335169
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
The five essays in Slave Laws in Virginia explore two centuries of the ever-changing relationship between a major slave society and the laws that guided it. The topics covered are diverse, including the African judicial background of African American slaves, Thomas Jefferson's relationship with the laws of slavery, the capital punishment of slaves, nineteenth-century penal transportation of slaves from Virginia as related to the interstate slave trade and the changing market for slaves, and Virginia's experience with its own fugitive slave laws. Through the history of one large extended family of ex-slaves, Philip J. Schwarz's conclusion examines how the law shaped the interaction between former slaves and masters after emancipation. Instead of relying on a static view of these two centuries, the author focuses on the diverse and changing ways that lawmakers and law enforcers responded to slaves' behavior and to whites' perceptions of and assumptions about that behavior.
The New Virginia Justice, Comprising the Office and Authority of a Justice of the Peace, in the Commonwealth of Virginia
Author: William Waller Hening
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forms (Law)
Languages : en
Pages : 710
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forms (Law)
Languages : en
Pages : 710
Book Description
Public Laws of the Confederate States of America
Author: Confederate States of America
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
How Our Laws are Made
Author: John V. Sullivan
Publisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Congressional Record
Author: United States. Congress
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1324
Book Description
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ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1324
Book Description
A Summary View of the Rights of British America
Author: Thomas Jefferson
Publisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Virginia
Author: Virginia
Publisher:
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Category : Session laws
Languages : en
Pages : 1402
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Session laws
Languages : en
Pages : 1402
Book Description
A Collection of All Such Acts of the General Assembly of Virginia, of a Public and Permanent Nature, as are Now in Force
The Statutes at Large: 1619-1660
Author: Virginia
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
Published pursuant to an act of the General Assembly of Virginia, passed on the fifth day of February one thousand eight hundred and eight.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
Published pursuant to an act of the General Assembly of Virginia, passed on the fifth day of February one thousand eight hundred and eight.