Tyrannicide : Forging an American Law of Slavery in Revolutionary South Carolina and Massachusetts /

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"Tyrannicide uses a captivating narrative to unpack the experiences of slavery and slave law in South Carolina and Massachusetts during the Revolutionary Era. In 1779, during the midst of the American Revolution, 34 South Carolina slaves escaped aboard a British privateer ship (the Tyrannicide)...

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Autor principal: Blanck, Emily
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens, GA : University of Georgia Press, 2014.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Tyrannicide (Brig)
Slavery > Law and legislation.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Human Rights.
LAW > Public.
LAW > Constitutional.
Slavery > Law and legislation > Massachusetts > History.
Slavery > Law and legislation > South Carolina > History.
South Carolina.
Massachusetts.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Forging an American Slave Law; Chapter 1 Slavery, Rhetoric, and Reality before the War, 1764-1774; Chapter 2 Slavery and the Start of the Revolution, 1775-1779; Chapter 3 The Tyrannicide Affair Begins, 1779-1782; Chapter 4 Diverging Slave Law in the New Nation, 1783-1787; Epilogue: Fugitive Slaves in the Constitutional Convention; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y.

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