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Slavery & the Law (Hardcover, New)
Paul Finkelman; Contributions by Derrick Bell, Jonathan A. Bush, Jacob I Corre, Michael Kent Curtis, …
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R4,591
Discovery Miles 45 910
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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.
Covering the colonial period to the Civil War, spanning all of the northern United States, In Hope of Liberty documents the antebellum northern black experience. In examining churches, schools, music, living arrangements, occupations, even the underground railroad, the Hortons point out the central role of the black community in successfully managing the tensions born of assimilation and cultural difference. In the process, they detail the extensive national contributions of northern blacks.
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