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Slavery, the Civil Law, and the Supreme Court of Louisiana
Häftad, 1997
401 kr
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Winner of the Francis Butler Simkins Award for 1995 and the 1994 General L. Kemper Williams PrizeIn what may be the most impressive research to date of state supreme court records, this study analyses the evolution of Loui siana's slave laws from the territorial period to the Civil War. Schafer …
Becoming Free, Remaining Free
Manumission and Enslavement in New Orleans, 1846-1862
Häftad, 2003
343 kr
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Louisiana state law was unique in allowing slaves to contract for their freedom and to initiate a lawsuit for liberty. Judith Kelleher Schafer describes the ingenious and remarkably sophisticated ways New Orleans slaves used the legal system to gain their independence and find a voice in a society …
Brothels, Depravity, and Abandoned Women
Illegal Sex in Antebellum New Orleans
Häftad, 2011
293 kr
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Winner of the 2009 Gulf South Historical Association Book AwardWhen a priest suggested to one of the first governors of Louisiana that he banish all disreputable women to raise the colony's moral tone, the governor responded, ""If I send away all the loose females, there will be no women left here …
