Homicide Justified : The Legality of Killing Slaves in the United States and the Atlantic World /

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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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Fede, Andrew (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Athens, Georgia : University of Georgia Press, [2017]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Slaves > Legal status, laws, etc.
Slavery > Law and legislation.
Homicide.
HISTORY > United States > 19th Century.
LAW > Public.
LAW > Constitutional.
Esclaves > Violence envers > Atlantique, Region de l' > Histoire.
Esclaves > Violence envers > États-Unis > Histoire.
Slaves > Violence against > Atlantic Ocean Region > History.
Slaves > Violence against > United States > History.
Homicide > Atlantic Ocean Region > History.
Homicide > United States > History.
Slavery > Law and legislation > Atlantic Ocean Region > History.
Slavery > Law and legislation > United States > History.
United States.
Atlantic Ocean Region.
Internet resources.
History.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.

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