Southern Slavery and the Law, 1619-1860.

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.

''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.

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.

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