Author: United States. CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1324
Book Description
Congressional Record
Author: United States. CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1324
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Slavery in America
Author: Kenneth MorganPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 9780820327914
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
Designed specially for undergraduate course use, this new textbook is both an introduction to the study of American slavery and a reader of core texts on the subject. No other volume that combines both primary and secondary readings covers such a span of time--from the early seventeenth century to the Civil War. The book begins with a substantial introduction to the entire volume that gives an overview of slavery in North America. Each of the twelve chapters that follow has an introduction that discusses the leading secondary books and articles on the topic in question, followed by an essay and three primary documents. Questions for further study and discussion are included in the chapter introduction, while further readings are suggested in the chapter bibliography. Topics covered include slave culture, the slave-based economy, slavery and the law, slave resistance, pro-slavery ideology, abolition, and emancipation. The essays, by such eminent historians as Drew Gilpin Faust, Don E. Fehrenbacher, Eric Foner, John Hope Franklin, and Sylvia R. Frey, have been selected for their teaching value and ability to provoke discussion. Drawing on black and white, male and female experiences, the primary documents come from a wide variety of sources: diaries, letters, laws, debates, oral testimonies, travelers’ accounts, inventories, journals, autobiographies, petitions, and novels.
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.
Minutes of the U.S. Circuit Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1790-1844
Author: United States. National Archives and Records ServicePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 20
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Writings on American History
Author: Catalog of National Archives Microfilm Publications
Author: United States. National Archives and Records ServicePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Documents on microfilm
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Annual Report of the American Historical Association
Author: American Historical AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
Handbook of County Records Deposited with the North Carolina Historical Commission
Author: North Carolina. State Department of Archives and HistoryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : North Carolina
Languages : en
Pages : 50
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Inventory of the State Archives of Louisiana
Author: Catalogue of Archival Material, Hall of Records, State of Maryland
Author: Maryland. Hall of Records CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 170
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