Fathers of conscience : mixed-race inheritance in the antebellum South / / Bernie D. Jones
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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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| Pubblicazione: | Athens, Ga., : University of Georgia Press, c2009 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (214 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 342.7508/7 |
| Soggetto topico: | Multiracial 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Examines high-court decisions in the antebellum South that involved wills in which white male planters bequeathed property, freedom, or both to women of color and their mixed-race children. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Fathers of conscience |
| ISBN: | 0-8203-4230-0 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910819009603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Studies in the legal history of the South.