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| Genre/Form: | History |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Christopher Waldrep; Donald G Nieman |
| ISBN: | 0820340812 9780820340814 |
| OCLC Number: | 739839254 |
| Description: | xix, 259 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents: | Judging slavery: Thomas Ruffin and State v. Mann / Sally Hadden -- The roots of fairness: State v. Caesar and slave justice in antebellum North Carolina / Timothy S. Huebner -- Slaves and crime: New Orleans, 1840-1862 / Judith Kelleher Schafer -- The law and the culture of slavery: Natchez, Mississippi / Ariela Gross -- Women and the law: domestic discord in North Carolina after the Civil War / Laura F. Edwards -- Extralegal violence and the planter class: the Ku Klux Klan in the Alabama Black belt during Reconstruction / Michael W. Fitzgerald -- Federal enforcement of Black rights in the post-redemption South: the Ellenton riot case / Lou Falkner Williams -- African American communities, politics, and justice: Washington County, Texas, 1865-1890 / Donald G. Nieman -- Black political leadership: Warren County, Mississippi / Christopher Waldrep. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Christopher Waldrep and Donald G. Nieman. |
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The editors should be commended for developing a tightly organized and focused collection that is certain to advance debate concerning the legal system and extra-legal violence in the nineteenth century South.--Louisiana History Examining how institutions operated on the ground, these essays emphasize that Americans' apparent dedication to legalism was a highly complex matter. With their focus on the nineteenth-century South, moreover, they do much to reveal the interactions of race, class, and gender in a society where ideals of democracy and hierarchy created a tension that could never be easily resolved. . . . A valuable contribution to the study of the nineteenth-century South. Its essays tell us much about southern legal history. They also do much to demonstrate the relevance of that history to our understanding of the larger complexities of the region and of the nation as a whole.--Journal of American History Deep research, persuasive interpretation, and graceful prose all commend this excellent volume to the reader.--American Historical Review [T]his collection of essays valuably exploits the sometimes difficult to access riches of local records to offer a number of compelling interpretations of race and law in southern locales in the nineteenth century. Moreover, due to its excellent integrative introduction, it hangs together better than many anthologies do. It is highly recommended to all interested in the social history of American law and in the social history of the American South.--H-Net Local Matters is a fine anthology of painstakingly researched and well-written essays, each an example of how archival research can illuminate the conventional legal record.--Alabama Review Read more...
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- Slavery -- Law and legislation -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.
- Discrimination in justice administration -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.
- African Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.
- African American criminals -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.
- Southern States -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century.
- African American criminals.
- African Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc.
- Discrimination in justice administration.
- Race relations.
- Slavery -- Law and legislation.
- Southern States.
