Slavery & the Law (Hardcover, New)

Central to the development of the American legal system, writes Professor Finkelman in Slavery & the Law, is the institution of slavery. It informs us not only about early concepts of race and property, but about the nature of American democracy itself. Prominent historians of slavery and legal scholars analyze the intricate relationship between slavery, race, and the law from the earliest Black Codes in colonial America to the passage of the Fugitive Slave Law and the Dred Scott decision prior to the Civil War. Slavery & the Law's wide-ranging essays focus on comparative slave law, auctioneering practices, rules of evidence, and property rights, as well as issues of criminality, punishment, and constitutional law. What emerges from this multi-faceted portrait is a complex legal system designed to ensure the property rights of slave-holders and to institutionalize racism. The ultimate result was to strengthen the institution of slavery in the midst of a growing trend toward democracy in the mid-nineteenth-century Atlantic community.

General

Imprint:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	February 1998
First published:	February 1998
Editors:	Paul Finkelman
Contributors:	Derrick Bell • Jonathan A. Bush • Jacob I Corre • Michael Kent Curtis • William W Fisher III • Ariela Gross • James Oliver Horton • Lois Horton • Sanford Levinson
Dimensions:	235 x 162 x 37mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	476
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-945612-36-0
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > History > American history > General
LSN:	0-945612-36-2
Barcode:	9780945612360

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