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Slavery On Trial

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Author : Jeannine Marie DeLombard
language : en
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Release Date : 2007

Slavery On Trial written by Jeannine Marie DeLombard and has been published by Univ of North Carolina Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with History categories.

America's legal consciousness was high during the era that saw the imprisonment of abolitionist editor William Lloyd Garrison, the execution of slave revolutionary Nat Turner, and the hangings of John Brown and his Harpers Ferry co-conspirators.

Though The Heavens May Fall

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Author : Steven M. Wise
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2006

Though The Heavens May Fall written by Steven M. Wise and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Antislavery movements categories.

Perhaps no trial changed the course of history as much as one that took place in London in 1772: the case of James Somerset, a black man rescued from a ship bound for the West Indies slave markets.At this landmark trial, two encompassing worldviews clashed in an event of passionate drama and far-reaching significance.Now the noted legal historian Steven M. Wise recreates each exciting moment of the case that slave owners contended would do nothing less than bring the economy of the British Empire to a crashing halt. In a gripping narrative of Somerset's trail -aand the slave trials that led up to it -aWise sets the stage for the extraordinary decision by the notoriously conservative judge, Lord Mansfield.That decision would set in motion the abolition of slavery in both England and the United States. The characters who shaped this great historical moment go beyond a screenwriter's dream: Somerset's novice attorneys arguing their first case before the august court; the fervent British abolitionist Granville Sharp, a cross between William Lloyd Garrison and Ralph Nader; the slave master's skilful, two-faced lawyer; and finally the greatest judge of his time, Lord Mansfield, whose own mulatto grand-niece was his slave.As the case drew to a close and defenders of slavery pleaded with Lord Mansfield to maintain the system, the judge spoke the words that continue to resound more than two centuries later: 'Let Justice be done, though the Heavens may fall.a

Johns Hopkins University Studies In Historical And Political Science

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1899

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A History Of The Republican Party From Its Organization To The Present Time

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Author : Eugene Virgil Smalley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1896

A History Of The Republican Party From Its Organization To The Present Time written by Eugene Virgil Smalley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1896 with Minnesota categories.

Dred Anti Slavery Tales And Papers Life In Florida After The War

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Author : Harriet Beecher Stowe
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1896

Dred Anti Slavery Tales And Papers Life In Florida After The War written by Harriet Beecher Stowe and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1896 with Authors, American categories.

Slavery And Servitude In The Colony Of North Carolina

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Author : John Spencer Bassett
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1896

Slavery And Servitude In The Colony Of North Carolina written by John Spencer Bassett and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1896 with History categories.

American Slavery And After

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Author : George Olshausen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1984

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A Brief History Of The Republican Party From Its Organization To The Presidential Campaign Of 1888

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Author : Eugene Virgil Smalley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1888

A Brief History Of The Republican Party From Its Organization To The Presidential Campaign Of 1888 written by Eugene Virgil Smalley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1888 with categories.

Baltimore Slavery And Constitutional History

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1896

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Slavery On Trial

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Author : James Campbell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010

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By the mid-nineteenth century, Richmond was one of the preeminent industrial centers in the South, with a level of criminal activity that reflected its size. Slavery on Trial examines more than 7,000 criminal cases recorded between 1830 and 1860, ranging from sensational murders to minor misdemeanors. Although the criminal justice system in antebellum Virginia was explicitly designed to support slaveholders' rule, James Campbell reveals that, in practice, trials and punishments sometimes subverted elite interests. Rather than serving as an unproblematic prop of the slave regime, law enforcement and court proceedings in Richmond revealed class, race, and gender tensions. Campbell shows that considerations of race and slavery infused every criminal case in Richmond, even when slaves were not directly involved as victims or defendants. He also considers the relationship between judicial processes and social, cultural, and political developments in the city. Slavery on Trial is a sobering portrait of the administration of racially constructed laws. It exposes the contradictions inherent in antebellum Southern law, and examines the implications those contradictions had for slaves, free blacks, poor whites, immigrants, and women.