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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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