LEADER 03613nam 22005533u 450 001 9910971244703321 005 20240401155732.0 010 $a979-88-8182-675-8 024 7 $a10.5040/9798881826758 035 $a(CKB)2670000000517799 035 $a(EBL)1354795 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001549129 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16158018 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001549129 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)14806077 035 $a(PQKB)10479211 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1354795 035 $a(OCoLC)1528562801 035 $a(UkLoBP)BP9798881826758BC 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000517799 100 $a20131223d2001|||| u|| | 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSlavery & the Law 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aLanham, MD :$cRowman & Littlefield Publishers,$d1998. 210 2$aNew York :$cBloomsbury Publishing (US),$d2025. 215 $a1 online resource (477 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a0-945612-36-2 327 $aTitle 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 Finkelman 327 $a5 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. Utz 327 $a9 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; Index 330 $aIn 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. 606 $aSlavery$xHistory$zUnited States$vLaw and legislation 606 $aHistory of the Americas$2bicssc 615 0$aSlavery$xHistory 615 7$aHistory of the Americas 676 $a342.73/087 676 $a347.30287 801 0$bUkLoBP 801 1$bUkLoBP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910971244703321 996 $aSlavery & the law$91098415 997 $aUNINA