04332nam 22007333u 450 991080718830332120240312163458.0(CKB)2670000000517799(EBL)1354795(SSID)ssj0001549129(PQKBManifestationID)16158018(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001549129(PQKBWorkID)14806077(PQKB)10479211(MiAaPQ)EBC1354795(EXLCZ)99267000000051779920131223d2001|||| u|| |engur|n|---|||||txtccrSlavery & the Law[electronic resource]Lanham Rowman & Littlefield Publishers20011 online resource (477 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-945612-36-2 Title page; Copyright page; Dedication Page; CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; Introduction The Centrality of Slavery in American Legal Development Paul Finkelman; Part I Theories of Democracy and the Law of Slavery; 1 Learning the Three ""I''s of America's Slave Heritage Derrick Bell; 2 Ideology and Imagery in the Law of SlaveryWilliam W Fisher III; Part II Constitutional Law and Slavery; 3 Slavery in the Canon of Constitutional LawSanford Levinson; 4 Chief Justice Hornblower of New Jersey andthe Fugitive Slave Law of 1793 Paul Finkelman5 A Federal Assault: African-Americans and the Impactof the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 James Oliver Horton and Lois E. Horton6 The Crisis Over The Impending Crisis:Free Speech,Slavery, and the Fourteenth AmendmentMichael Kent Curtis; Part III Criminal and Civil Law of Slavery; 7 Slaves and the Rules of Evidence in Criminal Trials Thomas D. Morris; 8 ""Details are of a Most Revolting Character"": Cruelty to Slaves as Seen in Appeals to the Supreme Court of Louisiana Judith Kelleher Schafer; The Unreported Case of Humphreysv. Utz9 Pandora's Box: Slave Character on Trial inthe Antebellum Deep South Ariela Gross10 Slave Auctions on the Courthouse Steps: 329Court Sales of Slaves in Antebellum South Carolina Thomas D. Russell; Part IV Comparative Law and Slavery; 11 Seventeenth-CenturyJurists, Roman Law, and Slavery Alan Watson; 12 The British Constitution and the Creation of American SlaveryJonathan A. Bush; 13 Thinking Property at Rome Alan Watson; 14 Thinking Property at Memphis: An Application of Watson Jacob I. Corre; Notes on Contributors; IndexIn this book, prominent historians of slavery and legal scholars analyze the intricate relationship between slavery, race, and the law from the earliest Black Codes in colonial America to the passage of the Fugitive Slave Law and the Dred Scott decision prior to the Civil War. Slavery & the Law's wide-ranging essays focus on comparative slave law, auctioneering practices, rules of evidence, and property rights, as well as issues of criminality, punishment, and constitutional law.SlaveryHistoryLaw and legislationUnited StatesSlaveryHistoryLaw and legislationConstitutional Law - U.SHILCCLaw - U.SHILCCLaw, Politics & GovernmentHILCCSlaveryHistoryLaw and legislationSlaveryHistoryLaw and legislationConstitutional Law - U.S.Law - U.S.Law, Politics & Government342.73/087347.30287Finkelman Paul626812Bell Derrick1201621Bush Jonathan A297679Corré Jacob I1664214Curtis Michael Kent1664215Fisher III William W1664216Gross Ariela J.1965-1726594Horton James Oliver914657Horton Lois1664218Levinson Sanford1090954Morris Thomas D1201627Russell Thomas D1664219Schafer Judith Kelleher1664220Watson Alan1933-2018.205488AU-PeELAU-PeELAU-PeELBOOK9910807188303321Slavery & the Law4132522UNINA