Homicide Justified : The Legality of Killing Slaves in the United States and the Atlantic World /
This comparative study looks at the laws concerning the murder of slaves by their masters and at how these laws were implemented. Andrew T. Fede cites a wide range of cases-across time, place, and circumstance-to illuminate legal, judicial, and other complexities surrounding this regrettably common...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Athens, Georgia :
University of Georgia Press,
[2017]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Ancient approaches to the law of homicide and slave killing
- The visigoth, Spanish, Portuguese, and French laws on slave killing
- Creating a British colonial law of slave killing
- Decriminalization to amelioration on Britain's Atlantic Island colonies
- Slave killing law in Britain's Northern American colonies and the border states
- Slave killing in Britain's Southern mainland colonies
- Slave homicide reform in Virginia
- Slave homicide reform in North Carolina and the common law of slavery
- Slave homicide reform in Georgia and tennessee
- South Carolina joins the homicide law reform trend
- The antebellum states' law on slave homicide
- Conclusion : breaking out of the box of slavery law.