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Autore |
Jones Bernie D |
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Titolo |
Fathers of conscience : mixed-race inheritance in the antebellum South / / Bernie D. Jones |
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Athens, Ga., : University of Georgia Press, c2009 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (214 p.) |
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Collana |
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Studies in the legal history of the South |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Racially mixed people - Legal status, laws, etc - Southern States - History - 19th century |
Illegitimate children - Legal status, laws, etc - Southern States - History - 19th century |
Enslaved women - Legal status, laws, etc - Southern States - History - 19th century |
Wills - Southern States |
Inheritance and succession - Social aspects - Southern States - History - 19th century |
Men, White - Family relationships - Southern States - History - 19th century |
Slaveholders - Family relationships - Southern States - History - 19th century |
Enslaved persons - Family relationships - Southern States - History - 19th century |
Social classes - Southern States - History - 19th century |
Southern States Race relations History 19th century |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Righteous fathers, vulnerable old men, and degraded creatures -- Slavery, freedom, and the rule of law -- Justice and mercy in the Kentucky Court of Appeals -- Circling the wagons and clamping down : the Mississippi High Court of Errors and Appeals -- The people of Barnwell against the Supreme Court of South Carolina : the case of Elijah Willis. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Examines high-court decisions in the antebellum South that involved wills in which white male planters bequeathed property, freedom, or |
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