Studies in the Legal History of the South Series – serie
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Elbert Parr Tuttle
Chief Jurist of the Civil Rights Revolution
Av Anne Emanuel
E-bok, 2011
2059 kr
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This is the first—and the only authorized—biography of Elbert Parr Tuttle (1897–1996), the judge who led the federal court with jurisdiction over most of the Deep South through the most tumultuous years of the civil rights revolution. By the time Tuttle became chief judge of the United States Court …
Local Matters
Race, Crime, and Justice in the Nineteenth-Century South
Av Christopher Waldrep, Donald G. Nieman
E-bok, 2011
454 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 …
Fathers of Conscience
Mixed-Race Inheritance in the Antebellum South
E-bok, 2011
519 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
E-bok, 2014
822 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 …
Gender and the Jubilee
Black Freedom and the Reconstruction of Citizenship in Civil War Missouri
Av Sharon Romeo
E-bok, 2016
1038 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 …
