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Black Litigants in the Antebellum American South : /
"This work explores free and enslaved African Americans' involvement in a broad range of civil actions in the Natchez district of Mississippi and Louisiana between 1800 and 1860. Though the antebellum southern courts have long been understood as institutions supporting the class interests...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
The University of North Carolina Press,
[2018]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: A Bind of Their Own Making
- PART ONE
- 1 Telling Stories
- 2 The Rhetoric of Reputation
- 3 Advocacy
- PART TWO
- 4 Your Word Is your Bond
- 5 The Sanctity of Property
- 6 Subjects of Selfhood
- 7 For Family and Property
- Afterword: From Property to Plessy
- Appendix: Researching Black Litigants
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W.