Counterfeit Justice : The Judicial Odyssey of Texas Freedwoman Azeline Hearne /

For many of the forty years of her life as a slave, Azeline Hearne cohabitated with her wealthy, unmarried master, Samuel R. Hearne. She bore him four children, only one of whom survived past early childhood. When Sam died shortly after the Civil War ended, he publicly acknowledged his relationship...

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Autor principal: Baum, Dale, 1943-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2009.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Hearne, Azeline.
Race relations.
Land grants.
Freed persons.
African Americans > Legal status, laws, etc.
African Americans > Land tenure.
African Americans.
African American women.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Social Scientists & Psychologists.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
Concessions de terres > Texas > Robertson > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Noirs americains > Terres > Texas > Robertson > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Noirs americains > Texas > Robertson > Biographies.
Affranchis > Texas > Robertson > Biographies.
Noires americaines > Texas > Robertson > Biographies.
Land grants > Texas > Robertson County > History > 19th century.
African Americans > Land tenure > Texas > Robertson County > History > 19th century.
African Americans > Legal status, laws, etc. > Texas > Robertson County > History > 19th century.
African Americans > Texas > Robertson County > Biography.
Freed persons > Texas > Robertson County > Biography.
African American women > Texas > Robertson County > Biography.
Texas > Robertson County.
Robertson County (Tex.) > Biography.
Robertson County (Tex.) > Race relations > History > 19th century.
History.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • No place for a white man to live
  • Thar am no parties on marster's plantation
  • A supposed or pretended will
  • Unheard of in any system of procedure
  • A most wanton violation of private rights
  • It seems mighty queer to me, lawyer
  • Endeavoring to wrong, cheat, and defraud her
  • The old house hasn't killed you yet
  • Divested by the courts
  • Appendix: Timeline of major legal events.

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