Fathers of conscience [[electronic resource] ] : mixed-race inheritance in the antebellum South / / Bernie D. Jones

• Autore: Jones Bernie D
• Pubblicazione: Athens, Ga., : University of Georgia Press, c2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (214 p.)
• Disciplina: 342.7508/7
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Soggetto geografico: Southern States Race relations History 19th century
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Fathers of conscience
• ISBN: 0-8203-4230-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910781671203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Studies in the legal history of the South.