Slavery & the Law (eBook)

Paul Finkelman (Herausgeber)

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2001
480 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-4616-4234-3 (ISBN)

Infos

In this book, 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.

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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.

Autor

Paul Finkelman is one of the most prolific scholars of legal history and early American culture. He is author or editor of over forty books including Dred Scott v. Sandford: A Brief History With Documents, Slavery and the Founders: Race and Liberty in the Age of Jefferson, An Imperfect Union: Slavery, Federalism and Comity, and His Soul Goes Marching On: Responses to John Brown and the Harper's Ferry Raid. He is currently Chapman Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Tulsa.

Inhalt

Chapter 1 The Centrality of Slavery in American Legal DevelopmentPart 2 Theories of Democracy and the Law of SlaveryChapter 3 Learning the Three "I"s of America Slave HeritageChapter 4 Ideology and Imagery in the Law of SlaveryPart 5 Constitutional Law and SlaveryChapter 6 Slavery in the Canon of Constitutional LawChapter 7 Chief Justice Hornblower of New Jersey and the Fugitive Slave Law of 1793Chapter 8 A Federal Assault: African-Americans and the Impact of the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850Chapter 9 The Crisis Over The Impending Crisis: Free Speech, Slavery, and the Fourteenth AmendmentPart 10 Criminal and Civil Law of SlaveryChapter 11 Slaves the the Rules of Evidence in Criminal TrialsChapter 12 "Details are of a Most Revolting Character": Cruelty to Slaves as Seen in Appeals to the Supreme Court of Louisiana/The Unreported Case of Humphreys v. UtzChapter 13 Pandora's Box: Slave Character on Trial in the Antebellum Deep SouthChapter 14 Slave Auctions on the Courthouse Steps: Court Sales of Slaves in Antebellum South CarolinaPart 15 Comparative Law and SlaveryChapter 16 Seventeenth-Century Jurists, Roman Law, and SlaveryChapter 17 The British Constitution and the Creation of American SlaveryChapter 18 Thinking Property at RomeChapter 19 Thinking Property at Memphis: An Application of Watson

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 17.12.2001
• Co-Autor: Derrick Bell, Thomas D. Morris, Thomas D. Russell, Judith Kelleher Schafer, Alan Watson, Jonathan A. Bush, Jacob I. Corre, Michael Kent Curtis, Ariela Gross, James Oliver Horton, Lois Horton, William W. Fisher III, Sanford Levinson
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Arbeits- / Sozialrecht ► Sozialrecht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• ISBN-10: 1-4616-4234-5 / 1461642345
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4616-4234-3 / 9781461642343