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Federal Law and Southern Order
Racial Violence and Constitutional Conflict in the Post-Brown South
Häftad, 1995
636 kr
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Federal Law and Southern Order, first published in 1987, examines the factors behind the federal government's long delay in responding to racial violence during the 1950s and 1960s. The book also reveals that it was apprehension of a militant minority of white racists that ultimately spurred …
Defending Constitutional Rights
Av Frank M. Johnson, Tony A. Freyer
Inbunden, 2001
721 kr
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Federal Judge Frank M. Johnson of Alabama decided many of the most important civil rights and liberties cases in twentieth-century American history. During the 1950s and 1960s, his decisions supported Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights fighters in their struggles for justice and …
Great South Carolina Ku Klux Klan Trials, 1871–1872
Häftad, 2004
474 kr
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It is remarkable that the most serious intervention by the federal government to protect the rights of its new African American citizens during Reconstruction (and well beyond) has not, until now, received systematic scholarly study.In The Great South Carolina Ku Klux Klan Trials, Lou Falkner …
Origins of the Dred Scott Case
Jacksonian Jurisprudence and the Supreme Court, 1837-1857
Av Austin Allen
Häftad, 2006
368 kr
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The Supreme Court's 1857 Dred Scott decision denied citizenship to African Americans and enabled slavery's westward expansion. It has long stood as a grievous instance of justice perverted by sectional politics. Austin Allen finds that the outcome of Dred Scott hinged not on a single …
Double Character
Slavery and Mastery in the Antebellum Southern Courtroom
Häftad, 2006
527 kr
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This groundbreaking study of the law and culture of slavery in the antebellum Deep South takes readers into local courtrooms where people settled their civil disputes over property. Buyers sued sellers for breach of warranty when they considered slaves to be physically or morally defective; owners …
Fathers of Conscience
Mixed-Race Inheritance in the Antebellum South
Inbunden, 2009
1249 kr
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Fathers of Conscience examines high-court decisions in the antebellum South that involved wills in which white male planters bequeathed property, freedom, or both to women of color and their mixed-race children. These men, whose wills were contested by their white relatives, had used trusts and …
Jury Discrimination
The Supreme Court, Public Opinion, and a Grassroots Fight for Racial Equality in Mississippi
Inbunden, 2010
761 kr
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In 1906 a white lawyer named Dabney Marshall argued a case before the Mississippi Supreme Court demanding the racial integration of juries. He carried out a plan devised by Mississippi’s foremost black lawyer of the time: Willis Mollison. Against staggering odds, and with the help of a friendly …
Legal Ideology of Removal
The Southern Judiciary and the Sovereignty of Native American Nations
Häftad, 2009
544 kr
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This study is the first to show how state courts enabled the mass expulsion of Native Americans from their southern homelands in the 1830s. Our understanding of that infamous period, argues Tim Alan Garrison, is too often molded around the towering personalities of the Indian removal debate, …
Slave Laws in Virginia
Häftad, 2010
527 kr
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The five essays in Slave Laws in Virginia explore two centuries of the ever-changing relationship between a major slave society and the laws that guided it. The topics covered are diverse, including the African judicial background of African American slaves, Thomas Jefferson’s relationship with the …
From Maverick to Mainstream
Cumberland School of Law, 1847–1997
Av David J. Langum, Howard P. Walthall
Inbunden, 2010
807 kr
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Founded in 1847 in Lebanon, Tennessee, the Cumberland School of Law holds a unique place in the history of American legal education. As the premier law school in the South in the nineteenth century, Cumberland trained two United States Supreme Court justices, nine senators, a secretary of state, …
From Maverick to Mainstream
Cumberland School of Law, 1847–1997
Av David J. Langum, Howard P. Walthall
Häftad, 2010
476 kr
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Founded in 1847 in Lebanon, Tennessee, the Cumberland School of Law holds a unique place in the history of American legal education. As the premier law school in the South in the nineteenth century, Cumberland trained two United States Supreme Court justices, nine senators, a secretary of state, …
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 …
Jury Discrimination
The Supreme Court, Public Opinion, and a Grassroots Fight for Racial Equality in Mississippi
Häftad, 2011
471 kr
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In 1906 a white lawyer named Dabney Marshall argued a case before the Mississippi Supreme Court demanding the racial integration of juries. He carried out a plan devised by Mississippi’s foremost black lawyer of the time: Willis Mollison. Against staggering odds, and with the help of a friendly …
Signposts
New Directions in Southern Legal History
Av Sally E. Hadden, Patricia Hagler Minter
Inbunden, 2013
1150 kr
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In Signposts, Sally E. Hadden and Patricia Hagler Minter have assembled seventeen essays, by both established and rising scholars, that showcase new directions in southern legal history across a wide range of topics, time periods, and locales. The essays will inspire today's scholars to dig even …
Local Matters
Race, Crime, and Justice in the Nineteenth-Century South
Av Christopher Waldrep, Donald G. Nieman
Häftad, 2011
527 kr
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Much of the current reassessment of race, culture, and criminal justice in the nineteenth-century South has been based on intensive community studies. Drawing on previously untapped sources, the nine original papers collected here represent some of the best new work on how racial justice can be …
Trial of Democracy
Black Suffrage and Northern Republicans, 1860-1910
Av Xi Wang
Häftad, 2012
561 kr
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After the Civil War, Republicans teamed with activist African Americans to protect black voting rights through innovative constitutional reforms—a radical transformation of southern and national political structures. The Trial of Democracy is a comprehensive analysis of both the forces and …
Long, Lingering Shadow
Slavery, Race, and Law in the American Hemisphere
Inbunden, 2013
1299 kr
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Students of American history know of the law’s critical role in systematizing a racial hierarchy in the United States. Showing that this history is best appreciated in a comparative perspective, The Long, Lingering Shadow looks at the parallel legal histories of race relations in the United States, …
Long, Lingering Shadow
Slavery, Race, and Law in the American Hemisphere
Häftad, 2013
527 kr
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Students of American history know of the law’s critical role in systematizing a racial hierarchy in the United States. Showing that this history is best appreciated in a comparative perspective, The Long, Lingering Shadow looks at the parallel legal histories of race relations in the United States, …
States' Laws on Race and Color
Häftad, 2016
703 kr
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This remarkable, hard-to-find resource is an exhaustive compilation of state laws and local ordinances in effect in 1950 that mandated racial segregation and of pre-Brown-era civil rights legislation.The volume cites legislation from forty-eight states and the District of Columbia, and ordinances …
Gender and the Jubilee
Black Freedom and the Reconstruction of Citizenship in Civil War Missouri
Av Sharon Romeo
Häftad, 2018
510 kr
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Gender and the Jubilee is a bold reconceptualization of black freedom during the Civil War that uncovers the political and constitutional claims made by African American women. By analyzing the actions of women in the urban environment of St. Louis and the surrounding areas of rural Missouri, Romeo …
Tyrannicide
Forging an American Law of Slavery in Revolutionary South Carolina and Massachusetts
Av Emily Blanck
Häftad, 2018
577 kr
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Tyrannicide uses a captivating narrative to unpack the experiences of slavery and slave law in South Carolina and Massachusetts during the Revolutionary Era. In 1779, during the midst of the American Revolution, thirty-four South Carolina slaves escaped aboard a British privateer and survived …
Defending Constitutional Rights
Av Frank M. Johnson, Tony A. Freyer
Häftad, 2019
492 kr
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Federal Judge Frank M. Johnson of Alabama decided many of the most important civil rights and liberties cases in twentieth-century American history. During the 1950s and 1960s, his decisions supported Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights fighters in their struggles for justice and …
Craftsmanship and Character
A History of the Vinson & Elkins Law Firm of Houston, 1917-1997
Inbunden, 1998
2411 kr
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This pioneering work by one of the country's leading legal historians is perhaps the most complete history ever written of a major American multinational law firm. Granted unprecedented access to the private files of the Vinson & Elkins firm in Houston, Texas, Harold M. Hyman has crafted a unique …
Free to Work
Labor Law, Emancipation, and Reconstruction, 1815-1880
Inbunden, 1999
1014 kr
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In this intriguing and innovative work, James D. Schmidt examines federal efforts to establish "free labor" in the South during and after the Civil War by exploring labor law in the antebellum North and South and its role in the development of a capitalist labor market. Identifying the emergence of …
Rise of Judicial Management in the U.S. District Court, Southern District of Texas, 1955–2000
Inbunden, 2003
2411 kr
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This is the first book-length study of a federal district court to analyze the revolutionary changes in its mission, structure, policies, and procedures over the past four decades. As Steven Harmon Wilson chronicles the court's attempts to keep pace with an expanding, diversifying caseload, he …
Reconstruction of Southern Debtors
Bankruptcy after the Civil War
Inbunden, 2004
961 kr
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Based on a careful empirical study of nearly four thousand cases filed in three southern federal districts, this book focuses on how the Bankruptcy Act of 1867 helped shape the course and outcome of Reconstruction. Although passed by a Republican-dominated Congress that was commonly viewed as …
Gateway to Justice
The Juvenile Court and Progressive Child Welfare in a Southern City
Häftad, 2005
548 kr
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The Juvenile Court of Memphis, founded in 1910, directed delinquent and dependent children into a variety of private charitable organizations and public correctional facilities. Drawing on the court's case files and other primary sources, Jennifer Trost explains the complex interactions between …
Southern Judicial Tradition
State Judges and Sectional Distinctiveness, 1790-1890
Häftad, 2008
545 kr
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This first book to examine the lives and work of nineteenth-century southern judges explores the emergence of a southern judiciary and the effects of regional peculiarities and attitudes on legal development. Drawing on the judicial opinions and private correspondence of six chief justices whose …
Fathers of Conscience
Mixed-Race Inheritance in the Antebellum South
Häftad, 2009
548 kr
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Fathers of Conscience examines high-court decisions in the antebellum South that involved wills in which white male planters bequeathed property, freedom, or both to women of color and their mixed-race children. These men, whose wills were contested by their white relatives, had used trusts and …
Tyrannicide
Forging an American Law of Slavery in Revolutionary South Carolina and Massachusetts
Av Emily Blanck
Inbunden, 2014
1014 kr
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Tyrannicide uses a captivating narrative to unpack the experiences of slavery and slave law in South Carolina and Massachusetts during the Revolutionary Era. In 1779, during the midst of the American Revolution, thirty-four South Carolina slaves escaped aboard a British privateer and survived …
