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Category : Legal briefs
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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People of the State of Illinois V. Nelson
The People of the State of Illinois V. Nelson
Author: The People of the State of Illinois V. Nelson
Author: Fencl V. Abrahamson
Author: Supreme Court Reporter
Author: United States. Supreme CourtPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 988
Book Description
Slavery and Human Progress
Author: David Brion DavisPublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Pulitzer Prize-winner David Brion Davis here provides a penetrating survey of slavery and emancipation from ancient times to the twentieth century. His trenchant analysis puts the most recent international debates about freedom and human rights into much-needed perspective. Davis shows that slavery was once regarded as a form of human progress, playing a critical role in the expansion of the western world. It was not until the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that views of slavery as a retrograde institution gained far-reaching acceptance. Davis illuminates this momentous historical shift from "progressive" enslavement to "progressive" emancipation, ranging over an array of important developments--from the slave trade of early Muslims and Jews to twentieth-century debates over slavery in the League of Nations and the United Nations. In probing the intricate connections among slavery, emancipation, and the idea of progress, Davis sheds new light on two crucial issues: the human capacity for dignifying acts of oppression and the problem of implementing social change.
Supreme Court Reporter
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1004
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The Supreme Court Reporter
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1024
Book Description
Author: Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368723677
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 898
Book Description
The Life and Death of Gus Reed
Author: Thomas BahdePublisher: Ohio University Press
ISBN: 0821444948
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Gus Reed was a freed slave who traveled north as Sherman’s March was sweeping through Georgia in 1864. His journey ended in Springfield, Illinois, a city undergoing fundamental changes as its white citizens struggled to understand the political, legal, and cultural consequences of emancipation and black citizenship. Reed became known as a petty thief, appearing time and again in the records of the state’s courts and prisons. In late 1877, he burglarized the home of a well-known Springfield attorney—and brother of Abraham Lincoln’s former law partner—a crime for which he was convicted and sentenced to the Illinois State Penitentiary. Reed died at the penitentiary in 1878, shackled to the door of his cell for days with a gag strapped in his mouth. An investigation established that two guards were responsible for the prisoner’s death, but neither they nor the prison warden suffered any penalty. The guards were dismissed, the investigation was closed, and Reed was forgotten. Gus Reed’s story connects the political and legal cultures of white supremacy, black migration and black communities, the Midwest’s experience with the Civil War and Reconstruction, and the resurgence of nationwide opposition to African American civil rights in the late nineteenth century. These experiences shaped a nation with deep and unresolved misgivings about race, as well as distinctive and conflicting ideas about justice and how to achieve it.