Slave Laws in Virginia
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2010
University of Georgia Press (Verlag)
978-0-8203-3516-2 (ISBN)
University of Georgia Press (Verlag)
978-0-8203-3516-2 (ISBN)
Features five essays that explore two centuries of the ever-changing relationship between a major slave society and the laws that guided it. This work focuses on the diverse and changing ways that law-makers and law enforcers responded to slaves' behavior and to whites' perceptions of and assumptions about that behavior.
The five essays in ""Slave Laws in Virginia"" explore two centuries of the ever-changing relationship between a major slave society and the laws that guided it. The topics covered are diverse, including the African judicial background of African American slaves, Thomas Jefferson's relationship with the laws of slavery, the capital punishment of slaves, nineteenth-century penal transportation of slaves from Virginia as related to the interstate slave trade and the changing market for slaves, and Virginia's experience with its own fugitive slave laws. Through the history of one large extended family of ex-slaves, Philip J. Schwarz's conclusion examines how the law shaped the interaction between former slaves and masters after emancipation. Instead of relying on a static view of these two centuries, the author focuses on the diverse and changing ways that law-makers and law enforcers responded to slaves' behavior and to whites' perceptions of and assumptions about that behavior.
The five essays in ""Slave Laws in Virginia"" explore two centuries of the ever-changing relationship between a major slave society and the laws that guided it. The topics covered are diverse, including the African judicial background of African American slaves, Thomas Jefferson's relationship with the laws of slavery, the capital punishment of slaves, nineteenth-century penal transportation of slaves from Virginia as related to the interstate slave trade and the changing market for slaves, and Virginia's experience with its own fugitive slave laws. Through the history of one large extended family of ex-slaves, Philip J. Schwarz's conclusion examines how the law shaped the interaction between former slaves and masters after emancipation. Instead of relying on a static view of these two centuries, the author focuses on the diverse and changing ways that law-makers and law enforcers responded to slaves' behavior and to whites' perceptions of and assumptions about that behavior.
PHILIP J. SCHWARZ, Professor of History at Virginia Commonwealth University, is the author of Twice Condemned: Slaves and the Criminal Laws of Virginia, 1705-1865 and Slave Laws in Virginia.
Verlagsort | Georgia |
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Sprache | englisch |
Gewicht | 374 g |
Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht | |
Recht / Steuern ► Rechtsgeschichte | |
ISBN-10 | 0-8203-3516-9 / 0820335169 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-8203-3516-2 / 9780820335162 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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