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The People and Their Peace - Legal Culture and the Transformation of Inequality in the Post-Revolutionary South (Paperback, New edition)
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The People and Their Peace - Legal Culture and the Transformation of Inequality in the Post-Revolutionary South (Paperback, New edition)
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This book deals with the changes in the legal logic of slavery,
race, and gender. In the half-century following the Revolutionary
War, the logic of inequality underwent a profound transformation
within the southern legal system. Drawing on extensive archival
research in North and South Carolina, Laura F. Edwards illuminates
those changes by revealing the importance of localized legal
practice. Edwards shows that following the Revolution, the
intensely local legal system favored maintaining the 'peace', a
concept intended to protect the social order and its patriarchal
hierarchies. By the 1830s, however, state leaders had secured
support for a more centralized system that excluded people who were
not specifically granted individual rights, including women,
African Americans, and the poor. Edwards concludes that the
emphasis on rights affirmed and restructured existing patriarchal
inequalities, giving them new life within state law with
implications that affected all Americans. Placing slaves, free
blacks, and white women at the center of the story, Edwards recasts
traditional narratives of legal and political change and sheds
light on key issues in U.S. history, including the persistence of
inequality - particularly slavery - in the face of expanding
democracy.
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