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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Fede, Andrew (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens, Georgia : University of Georgia Press, [2017]
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.