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In this book, prominent historians of slavery and legal scholars analyze the intricate relationship between slavery, race, and the law from the earliest Black Codes in colonial America to the passage of the Fugitive Slave Law and the Dred Scott decision prior to the Civil War. Slavery & the Law's wide-ranging essays focus on comparative slave law, auctioneering practices, rules of evidence, and property rights, as well as issues of criminality, punishment, and constitutional law.
Slavery --- -Slavery --- -Abolition of slavery --- Antislavery --- Enslavement --- Mui tsai --- Ownership of slaves --- Servitude --- Slave keeping --- Slave system --- Slaveholding --- Thralldom --- Crimes against humanity --- Serfdom --- Slaveholders --- Slaves --- Law and legislation --- -History --- Enslaved persons --- -Law and legislation
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African Americans --- Noirs américains --- History --- Encyclopedias. --- Histoire --- Encyclopédies
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"In ruling after ruling, the three most important pre-Civil War justices--Marshall, Taney, and Story--upheld slavery. Paul Finkelman establishes an authoritative account of each justice's proslavery position, the reasoning behind his opposition to black freedom, and the personal incentives that embedded racism ever deeper in American civic life"--
Slavery --- Judges --- Law and legislation --- Cases --- History --- Attitudes --- Marshall, John, --- Taney, Roger Brooke, --- Story, Joseph, --- United States.
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"In ruling after ruling, the three most important pre-Civil War justices--Marshall, Taney, and Story--upheld slavery. Paul Finkelman establishes an authoritative account of each justice's proslavery position, the reasoning behind his opposition to black freedom, and the personal incentives that embedded racism ever deeper in American civic life"--
Slavery --- Judges --- Law and legislation --- Cases --- History --- Attitudes --- History --- Marshall, John, --- Taney, Roger Brooke, --- Story, Joseph, --- United States. --- History
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African Americans --- Abolitionists --- Criminal law --- Criminal justice, Administration of --- Legal status, laws, etc.
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Slavery --- Legal status of enslaved persons in free states.
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