Southern Slavery and the Law, 1619-1860. (Record no. 63800)
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780807864302 |
| Qualifying information | (electronic bk.) |
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| Canceled/invalid ISBN | 9780807848173 |
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| System control number | (CaONFJC)MIL930808 |
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| System control number | (OCoLC)923703910 |
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| Original cataloging agency | MiAaPQ |
| Language of cataloging | eng |
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| Classification number | KF482 -- .M67 1996eb |
| 082 0# - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 342.73/087 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Morris, Thomas D. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Southern Slavery and the Law, 1619-1860. |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT | |
| Edition statement | 1st ed. |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Chapel Hill : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | University of North Carolina Press, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 1996. |
| 264 #4 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | ©1996. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 1 online resource (587 pages) |
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| Content type term | text |
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| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Notes -- Part I. Sources: Racial and Legal -- 1. The Function of Race in Southern Slave Law -- Indian Slavery -- Presumptions and Definitions -- Racial Relations at Law -- Voluntary Enslavement -- Notes -- 2. The Sources of Southern Slave Law -- The Colonial South -- Partus Sequitur Ventrem -- The Roman Law in Appellate Cases -- Villenage and Southern Slave Laws -- Hebraic Slavery as a Source of Law -- Notes -- Part II. Slaves as Property -- 3. Slaves as Property-Chattels Personal or Realty, and Did It Matter? -- Slaves as Realty in Eighteenth-Century Virginia -- Slaves as ''Realty'' in Kentucky -- Slaves as Realty in Arkansas and Louisiana -- Judicial Rulings -- Notes -- 4 Slavery and the Law of Successions -- Intestate Succession -- Testate Successions -- Some Common Law Restraints on the Disposition of Property by the Eighteenth Century -- Remainders and Executory Devises of Slaves in Practice -- Trusts in Practice -- The Question of ''Increase'' -- Dower and Widows' Thirds -- Liability for Debts Due -- Inheritances and the ''Humanity'' of Slaves -- Notes -- 5. Contract Law in the Sale and Mortgaging of Slaves -- Warranty Law -- Damages and Specific Performance -- Mortgage Contracts -- Notes -- 6. The Slave Hireling Contract and the Law -- The Law of Bailments -- Early Legal Practice -- The Powers and Rights of Hirers -- Duties by ''Implication'' -- Wrongdoers -- Negligence -- The Problem of the Slave as a Fellow Servant -- Notes -- Part III. Slaves as Persons -- 7. Southern Law and the Homicides of Slaves -- Early English Homicide Law -- Colonial Statutes -- Slave Homicides in the Colonial South -- Post-Revolutionary Constitutional and Legal Changes -- Appellate Practice -- Local Practice -- Notes -- 8. Law and the Abuse of Slaves -- Statutes Restraining Masters -- Common Law. |
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| Formatted contents note | ''Civil Rights'' of Slaves -- Third-Party Violence against Slaves -- Notes -- 9. Jurisdiction and Process in the Trials of Slaves -- Magistrates -- The Role of Juries -- Grand Juries -- Process upon Trial -- Appeals -- Notes -- 10. Slaves and the Rules of Evidence in Criminal Trials -- Basic Rules -- Practice -- The Confession -- Evidence in the Quarters -- Voluntariness -- Notes -- 11. Masters and the Criminal Offenses of Their Slaves -- Notes -- 12. Obedience and the Outsider -- Colonial Developments -- Post-Revolutionary Developments -- Some Nineteenth-Century ''Insurrection'' Cases -- The Homicides of ''Masters'' -- Outlawry -- Notes -- 13. Slaves' Violence against Third Parties -- Provocation in Cases Involving the Deaths of Whites -- ''Assaults with Intent'' -- Assaults -- Insolence -- Slaves as Victims of Slaves -- Notes -- 14. Slaves, Sexual Violence, and the Law -- Rape: Definitional Problems -- Attempts -- Problems of Evidence and the Elements of the Crime -- Notes -- 15. Property Crimes and the Law -- Larceny -- Burglary -- Burglary Cases -- The Use of Fire -- Burnings Trials -- Notes -- 16. Police Regulations -- Restraints on Personal Liberty -- Runaways -- Unlawful Assembly -- Reading and Writing -- The Right of Property -- Trading with Slaves -- Notes -- 17. Wrongs of Slaves and the Civil Liability of Masters -- Common Law Patterns of Dealing with Accidents -- The Analogies to Cattle and Vicious Animals -- The Master-Servant Analogy -- Negligence and Fault -- Liability and Class Relationships: Masters and Slaves -- Cost Distribution and Nonslaveholders -- Notes -- Part IV. Manumission -- 18. Emancipation: Conceptions, Restraints, and Practice -- Manumission as a ''Legacy'' or ''Trust'' -- Contracts for Manumission -- The ''Election'' Cases -- Freedom and the Claims of Creditors -- Manumission in Practice: Virginia as a Case Study. |
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| Formatted contents note | Notes -- 19. Quasi and In futuro Emancipations -- Quasi-Emancipation -- Manumissions In futuro -- In futuro Manumissions and the Partus Principle -- Additional Rules of Property -- Statutes and Status -- In futuro Manumissions and the Problem of Definition -- Prospective Manumission and the Rule against Perpetuities -- Notes -- Conclusion -- Slavery and Liberal Capitalism -- Personality, Rights, and Reform -- Southern Slavery and Legal Policies -- Notes -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A-B -- C -- D-E -- F-G -- H -- I-L -- M -- N-P -- Q-R -- S -- T -- U-W -- Y. |
| 588 ## - SOURCE OF DESCRIPTION NOTE | |
| Source of description note | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources. |
| 590 ## - LOCAL NOTE (RLIN) | |
| Local note | Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Slavery -- Law and legislation -- Southern States -- History. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Slavery -- Southern States -- History. |
| 655 #4 - INDEX TERM--GENRE/FORM | |
| Genre/form data or focus term | Electronic books. |
| 776 08 - ADDITIONAL PHYSICAL FORM ENTRY | |
| Relationship information | Print version: |
| Main entry heading | Morris, Thomas D. |
| Title | Southern Slavery and the Law, 1619-1860 |
| Place, publisher, and date of publication | Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press,c1996 |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780807848173 |
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| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | ProQuest (Firm) |
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| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3039472">https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3039472</a> |
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