Southern Slavery and the Law, 1619-1860. By THOMAS D. MORRIS. Studies in Legal History. Chapel...Miller, F ThorntonVirginia Historical SocietyThe Virginia Magazine of History and BiographyMorris, T. D. (1997). Southern Slavery and the Law, 1619-1830. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of ...
Setting limits on the unrestrained behavior of husbands or slaveholders helped uphold the legitimacy of hierarchical marriage and slavery, to be sure. Still, it also allowed wives (white and black), free people of color, and slaves to turn their subordination into a lega...
The Long Shadow of Slavery: The Persistence of Slave Owners in Southern Law-Makingdoi:10.2139/ssrn.3679017wealth inequalityelites and developmentUS Southintergenerational persistenceslaveryThis paper documents the persistence of the Southern slave owning elite in political power after the end of the ...
slavery and other forms of racial oppression, their efforts to secure equal rights received a major setback in 1857, when the U.S.Supreme Courtrejected African Americancitizenshipclaims. TheDred Scott decisionstated that the country’s founders had viewed Blacks as soinferiorthat they had “no ...
For an exploration of this literature, see William L. Ramsey and Sean M. Quinlan, "Southern Slavery As It Wasn't: Coming to Grips with Neo-Confederate Historical Misinformation," Oklahoma City University Law Review, 30 (2005): 209.
and purchase of Portuguese manufactures. Mozambique also received a fixed proportion of the Transvaal’s railway traffic. In a similar system in Angola,contract labourwas sent to São Tomé; when this system was terminated after allegations of slavery arose in 1908, theSão Toméplanters also ...
Picking cotton was h 6 work, and the Southdepended on slaves for this. The North was more industrial, with a larger p 7 and grea-ter wealth. The South's attitude was that each state had the right to make any law itw 8, and if southern states wanted slavery, the US government could...
In the Wake of Slavery: Civil War, Civil Rights, and the Reconstruction of Southern Law 来自 Semantic Scholar 喜欢 0 阅读量: 3 作者: J Ranney 摘要: The Civil War devastated the South, and the end of slavery turned Southern society upside down. How did the South regain social, economic,...
A woman of forty-three, writing in 1851, observed that her father, mother, four sisters, three brothers, and two infants were all dead, and except for her father, none had reached the age of thirty-six.2 Slavery has been a central concern of southern historians, generally from the white...
University, Court, and Slave: Pro-Slavery Thought in Southern Colleges and Courts and the Coming of Civil War by Alfred L. Brophy (review) Gautham Rao (bio) University, Court, and Slave: Pro-Slavery Thought in Southern Colleges and Courts and the Coming of Civil War. By Alfred L. Brophy...