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A bold new interpretation of Nat Turner and the slave rebellion
that stunned the American South In 1831 Virginia, Nat Turner led a
band of Southampton County slaves in a rebellion that killed
fifty-five whites, mostly women and children. After more than two
months in hiding, Turner was captured, and quickly convicted and
executed. In the Matter of Nat Turner penetrates the historical
caricature of Turner as befuddled mystic and self-styled Baptist
preacher to recover the haunting persona of this legendary American
slave rebel, telling of his self-discovery and the dawning of his
Christian faith, of an impossible task given to him by God, and of
redemptive violence and profane retribution. Much about Turner
remains unknown. His extraordinary account of his life and
rebellion, given in chains as he awaited trial in jail, was written
down by an opportunistic white attorney and sold as a pamphlet to
cash in on Turner's notoriety. But the enigmatic rebel leader had
an immediate and broad impact on the American South, and his
rebellion remains one of the most momentous episodes in American
history. Christopher Tomlins provides a luminous account of
Turner's intellectual development, religious cosmology, and
motivations, and offers an original and incisive analysis of the
Turner Rebellion itself and its impact on Virginia politics.
Tomlins also undertakes a deeply critical examination of William
Styron's 1967 novel, The Confessions of Nat Turner, which restored
Turner to the American consciousness in the era of civil rights,
black power, and urban riots. A speculative history that recovers
Turner from the few shards of evidence we have about his life, In
the Matter of Nat Turner is also a unique speculation about the
meaning and uses of history itself.
A bold new interpretation of Nat Turner and the slave rebellion
that stunned the American South In 1831 Virginia, Nat Turner led a
band of Southampton County slaves in a rebellion that killed
fifty-five whites, mostly women and children. After more than two
months in hiding, Turner was captured, and quickly convicted and
executed. In the Matter of Nat Turner penetrates the historical
caricature of Turner as befuddled mystic and self-styled Baptist
preacher to recover the haunting persona of this legendary American
slave rebel, telling of his self-discovery and the dawning of his
Christian faith, of an impossible task given to him by God, and of
redemptive violence and profane retribution. Much about Turner
remains unknown. His extraordinary account of his life and
rebellion, given in chains as he awaited trial in jail, was written
down by an opportunistic white attorney and sold as a pamphlet to
cash in on Turner's notoriety. But the enigmatic rebel leader had
an immediate and broad impact on the American South, and his
rebellion remains one of the most momentous episodes in American
history. Christopher Tomlins provides a luminous account of
Turner's intellectual development, religious cosmology, and
motivations, and offers an original and incisive analysis of the
Turner Rebellion itself and its impact on Virginia politics.
Tomlins also undertakes a deeply critical examination of William
Styron's 1967 novel, The Confessions of Nat Turner, which restored
Turner to the American consciousness in the era of civil rights,
black power, and urban riots. A speculative history that recovers
Turner from the few shards of evidence we have about his life, In
the Matter of Nat Turner is also a unique speculation about the
meaning and uses of history itself.
For more than a century, law schools have trained students to
'think like a lawyer'. In these times of legal crisis, both in
legal education and in global society, what does that mean for the
rest of us? In this book, thirty leading international scholars -
including Louis Assier-Andrieu, Marianne Constable, Yves Dezalay,
Denise Ferreira da Silva, Bryant G. Garth, Peter Goodrich, Duncan
Kennedy, Martti Koskenniemi, Shaun McVeigh, Samuel Moyn, Annelise
Riles, Charles F. Sabel and William H. Simon - examine what is
distinctive about legal thought. They probe the relation between
law and time, law and culture, and legal thought and legal action;
the nature of current legal thought; the geography of legal
thought; and the conditions for recognition of a new 'contemporary'
style of law. This work will help theorists, social scientists,
historians and students understand the intellectual context of
legal problems, legal doctrine, and jurisprudential trends in the
current conjuncture.
Volume 1 of The Cambridge History of Law in America begins the
account of law in America with the very first moments of European
colonization and settlement of the North American landmass. It
follows those processes across two hundred years to the eventual
creation and stabilization of the American republic. The book
discusses the place of law in regard to colonization and empire,
indigenous peoples, government and jurisdiction, population
migrations, economic and commercial activity, religion, the
creation of social institutions, and revolutionary politics. The
Cambridge History of Law in America has been made possible by the
generous support of the American Bar Foundation.
Volume 2 of The Cambridge History of Law in America focuses on the
long nineteenth century (1789-1920). It deals with the formation
and development of the American state system, the establishment and
growth of systematic legal education, the spread of the legal
profession, the growing density of legal institutions and their
interaction with political and social action and the development of
the modern criminal justice system. We also see how law intertwines
with religion, how it becomes ingrained in popular culture and how
it intersects with the worlds of the American military and of
international relations. The Cambridge History of Law in America
has been made possible by the generous support of the American Bar
Foundation.
Volume 3 of The Cambridge History of Law in America covers the
period from 1920 to the present, 'the American Century'. It charts
a century of legal transformations, and shows how, politically,
socially and culturally, the twentieth century was when law became
ubiquitous in American life. Among the themes discussed are
innovation in the disciplinary and regulatory use of law, changes
wrought by the intersection of law with explosive struggles around
race, gender, class and sexuality, the emergence and development of
the particularly American legal discourse of 'rights', and the
expansion of this discourse to the international arena. The main
focus of this last volume of The Cambridge History of Law in
America is the accelerating pace of change, change which we can be
confident will continue. The Cambridge History of Law in America
has been made possible by the generous support of the American Bar
Foundation.
Freedom Bound is about the origins of modern America - a history of
colonizing, work and civic identity from the beginnings of English
presence on the mainland until the Civil War. It is a history of
migrants and migrations, of colonizers and colonized, of households
and servitude and slavery, and of the freedom all craved and some
found. Above all it is a history of the law that framed the entire
process. Freedom Bound tells how colonies were planted in occupied
territories, how they were populated with migrants - free and
unfree - to do the work of colonizing and how the newcomers secured
possession. It tells of the new civic lives that seemed possible in
new commonwealths and of the constraints that kept many from
enjoying them. It follows the story long past the end of the
eighteenth century until the American Civil War, when - just for a
moment - it seemed that freedom might finally be unbound.
Volume II of the Cambridge History of Law in America focuses on the
long nineteenth century (1789-1920). It deals with the formation
and development of the American state system, the establishment and
growth of systematic legal education, the spread of the legal
profession, the growing density of legal institutions and their
interaction with political and social action, and the development
of the modern criminal justice system. We also see how law
intertwines with religion, how it becomes ingrained in popular
culture, and how it intersects with the worlds of the American
military and of international relations The Cambridge History of
Law in America has been made possible by the generous support of
the American Bar Foundation.
Volume I of the Cambridge History of Law in America begins the
account of law in America with the very first moments of European
colonization and settlement of the North American landmass. It
follows those processes across two hundred years to the eventual
creation and stabilization of the American republic. The book
discusses the place of law in regard to colonization and empire,
indigenous peoples, government and jurisdiction, population
migrations, economic and commercial activity, religion, the
creation of social institutions, and revolutionary politics. The
Cambridge History of Law in America has been made possible by the
generous support of the American Bar Foundation.
Volume III of the Cambridge History of Law in America covers the
period from 1920 to the present, 'the American Century'. It charts
a century of legal transformations - in the state, in legal thought
and education, in professional organization and life, in American
federalism and governance, in domestic affairs and international
relations. It shows how, politically, socially and culturally, the
twentieth century was when law became ubiquitous in American life.
Among the themes discussed are innovation in the disciplinary and
regulatory use of law, changes wrought by the intersection of law
with explosive struggles around race, gender, class and sexuality,
the emergence and development of the particularly American legal
discourse of 'rights', and the expansion of this discourse to the
international arena. The main focus of this last volume of the
Cambridge History of Law in America is the accelerating pace of
change, change which we can be confident will continue. The
Cambridge History of Law in America has been made possible by the
generous support of the American Bar Foundation.
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