Southern Slavery And The Law 1619 1860
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Southern Slavery And The Law 1619 1860
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Author : Thomas D. Morris
language : en
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Release Date : 2004-01-21
Southern Slavery And The Law 1619 1860 written by Thomas D. Morris and has been published by Univ of North Carolina Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-01-21 with Law categories.
This volume is the first comprehensive history of the evolving relationship between American slavery and the law from colonial times to the Civil War. As Thomas Morris clearly shows, racial slavery came to the English colonies as an institution without strict legal definitions or guidelines. Specifically, he demonstrates that there was no coherent body of law that dealt solely with slaves. Instead, more general legal rules concerning inheritance, mortgages, and transfers of property coexisted with laws pertaining only to slaves. According to Morris, southern lawmakers and judges struggled to reconcile a social order based on slavery with existing English common law (or, in Louisiana, with continental civil law.) Because much was left to local interpretation, laws varied between and even within states. In addition, legal doctrine often differed from local practice. And, as Morris reveals, in the decades leading up to the Civil War, tensions mounted between the legal culture of racial slavery and the competing demands of capitalism and evangelical Christianity.
Free Men All
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Author : Thomas D. Morris
language : en
Publisher: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
Release Date : 2001
Free Men All written by Thomas D. Morris and has been published by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Personal liberty laws categories.
Examines the Impact of the Idealism of the Personal Liberty Laws of Pennsylvania, New York, Massachusetts, Ohio and Wisconsin The Personal Liberty Laws reflected the social ethical commitment to freedom from slavery and as such were among the bricks that laid the foundation for the Fourteenth Amendment. Morris examines those statutes as enacted in the five representative states Pennsylvania, New York, Massachusetts, Ohio and Wisconsin, and argues that these laws were an alternative to the violence allowed by the southern slave codes and the extreme abolitionist viewpoints of the north. Thomas D. Morris [1938-] taught in the Department of History, Portland State University and is the author of Southern Slavery and the Law, 1619-1860. CONTENTS I. Slavery and Emancipation: the Rise of Conflicting Legal Systems II. Kidnapping and Fugitives: Early State and Federal Responses III. State "Interposition" 1820-1830: Pennsylvania and New York IV. Assaults Upon the Personal Liberty Laws V. The Antislavery Counterattack VI. The Personal Liberty Laws in the Supreme Court: Prigg v. Pennsylvania VII. The Pursuit of a Containment Policy, 1842-1850 VII. The Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 IX. Positive Law, Higher Law, and the Via Media X. Interposition, 1854-1858 XI. Habeas Corpus and Total Repudiation 1859-1860 XII. Denouement Appendix Bibliography Index
Slave Law In The American South
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Author : Mark V. Tushnet
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
Slave Law In The American South written by Mark V. Tushnet and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Law categories.
Tying together legal, historical, social, political and literary strands to show how the law itself was implicated in the persistence of slavery, this work sheds new light on slavery and Southern history, as it probes the conscience of a troubled jurist incapable of fully transcending his times.
Family Bonds
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Author : Ted Maris-Wolf
language : en
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Release Date : 2015-04-20
Family Bonds written by Ted Maris-Wolf and has been published by UNC Press Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-20 with Social Science categories.
Between 1854 and 1864, more than a hundred free African Americans in Virginia proposed to enslave themselves and, in some cases, their children. Ted Maris-Wolf explains this phenomenon as a response to state legislation that forced free African Americans to make a terrible choice: leave enslaved loved ones behind for freedom elsewhere or seek a way to remain in their communities, even by renouncing legal freedom. Maris-Wolf paints an intimate portrait of these people whose lives, liberty, and use of Virginia law offer new understandings of race and place in the upper South. Maris-Wolf shows how free African Americans quietly challenged prevailing notions of racial restriction and exclusion, weaving themselves into the social and economic fabric of their neighborhoods and claiming, through unconventional or counterintuitive means, certain basic rights of residency and family. Employing records from nearly every Virginia county, he pieces together the remarkable lives of Watkins Love, Jane Payne, and other African Americans who made themselves essential parts of their communities and, in some cases, gave up their legal freedom in order to maintain family and community ties.
Southern Slavery In Its Presen
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Author : Daniel R. (Daniel Raynes) 1811 Goodwin
language : en
Publisher: Wentworth Press
Release Date : 2016-08-27
Southern Slavery In Its Presen written by Daniel R. (Daniel Raynes) 1811 Goodwin and has been published by Wentworth Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-27 with History categories.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Fugitive Slaves 1619 1865
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Author : Marion Gleason McDougall
language : en
Publisher: Good Press
Release Date : 2019-12-18
Fugitive Slaves 1619 1865 written by Marion Gleason McDougall and has been published by Good Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-18 with Law categories.
"Fugitive Slaves (1619-1865)," edited by Albert Bushnell Hart, is a collection of primary sources related to slavery and the Underground Railroad in the US, featuring narratives from formerly enslaved people, abolitionists, legal documents, and newspaper articles. Contents include: Legislation and Cases Before the Constitution Legislation From 1789 to 1850 Principal Cases From 1789 to 1860 Fugitives and Their Friends Personal Liberty Laws The End of the Fugitive Slave Question (1860-1865)
Slavery Attacked
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Author : Merton Lynn Dillon
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990
Slavery Attacked written by Merton Lynn Dillon and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with History categories.
An examination of the internal and external forces that led to the downfall of slavery in the South. Contending that slavery contained within itself the seeds of its own destruction, Dillon (history, Ohio State) analyzes all of the diverse elements that resisted American slavery--the slaves themselves; nonslaveholding southern whites; hostile outsiders, such as the Spanish and British in wartime; free blacks; abolitionists; and the federal government and its armies during the Civil War. Paper edition (unseen), $16.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Colonial Southern Slavery
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Author : Paul Finkelman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1989
Colonial Southern Slavery written by Paul Finkelman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with African Americans categories.
Southern Society And Its Transformations 1790 1860
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Author : Susanna Delfino
language : en
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Release Date : 2011-06-15
Southern Society And Its Transformations 1790 1860 written by Susanna Delfino and has been published by University of Missouri Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-15 with History categories.
In Southern Society and Its Transformations, a new set of scholars challenge conventional perceptions of the antebellum South as an economically static region compared to the North. Showing that the pre-Civil War South was much more complex than once thought, the essays in this volume examine the economic lives and social realities of three overlooked but important groups of southerners: the working poor, non-slaveholding whites, and middling property holders such as small planters, professionals, and entrepreneurs. The nine essays that comprise Southern Society and Its Transformations explore new territory in the study of the slave-era South, conveying how modernization took shape across the region and exploring the social processes involved in its economic developments. The book is divided into four parts, each analyzing a different facet of white southern life. The first outlines the legal dimensions of race relations, exploring the effects of lynching and the significance of Georgia’s vagrancy laws. Part II presents the advent of the market economy and its effect on agriculture in the South, including the beginning of frontier capitalism. The third section details the rise of a professional middle class in the slave era and the conflicts provoked. The book’s last section deals with the financial aspects of the transformation in the South, including the credit and debt relationships at play and the presence of corporate entrepreneurship. Between the dawn of the nation and the Civil War, constant change was afoot in the American South. Scholarship has only begun to explore these progressions in the past few decades and has given too little consideration to the economic developments with respect to the working-class experience. These essays show that a new generation of scholars is asking fresh questions about the social aspects of the South’s economic transformation. Southern Society and Its Transformations is a complex look at how whole groups of traditionally ignored white southerners in the slave era embraced modernizing economic ideas and actions while accepting a place in their race-based world. This volume will be of interest to students of Southern and U.S. economic and social history.
The Bondsman S Burden
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Author : Jenny Bourne Wahl
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1997-11-13
The Bondsman S Burden written by Jenny Bourne Wahl and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-11-13 with History categories.
Were slaves property or human beings under the law? Antebellum Southern judges designed efficient laws that protected property rights and helped slavery remain economically viable, laws that sheltered the persons embodied by that propertySH-the slaves themselves. Unintentionally, these judges generated rules applicable to ordinary Americans. Wahl provides a rigorous, compelling economic analysis of the common law of Southern slavery, inspecting thousands of legal disputes.