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Peculiar Humanism
The Judicial Advocacy of Slavery in High Courts of the Old South 1820-1850
Häftad, 2010
527 kr
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In early-nineteenth-century America, and especially in the Old South, the use of oratory appealed to legal professionals—judges as well as advocates. Consistent with the humanism proclaimed in classical and neoclassical works, appellate judges perceived their civic duties to demand oratorical skill …
Insolent Slave
Häftad, 2002
467 kr
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While a lot has been written about slave insurgency in the form of rebellion, this study considers a different form - insolence. The author demonstrates that slaves learned quickly when to move towards the insolent and also that slave-owners attached various meanings to this discourse.
Crafting the Overseer's Image
Inbunden, 2007
467 kr
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Though Overseers played crucial roles in managing and perpetuating the plantation culture of the American South, they remain shadowy figures on an otherwise widely studied landscape. Wiethoff illumines the rhetoric surrounding a class of workers whom historians often have relegated to the …
