Nothing more than freedom : the failure of abolition in American law / Giuliana Perrone, University of California, Santa Barbara.
2023
KF4757 .P47 2023 (Mapit)
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Title
Nothing more than freedom : the failure of abolition in American law / Giuliana Perrone, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Imprint
Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023.
Copyright
©2023
Description
xv, 316 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm.
Series
Studies in legal history.
Formatted Contents Note
Introduction: An abolitionist vision
The contract controversy
Wreck and ruin
By force it was destroyed
Confederate reckonings
Life after the death of slavery
Back into the days of slavery
The grave question
Final failure
Epilogue: An abolitionist revision.
The contract controversy
Wreck and ruin
By force it was destroyed
Confederate reckonings
Life after the death of slavery
Back into the days of slavery
The grave question
Final failure
Epilogue: An abolitionist revision.
Summary
"After examining more than 700 lawsuits decided by the Supreme Courts of former slave states, Giuliana Perrone asserts that slavery remained actionable in American law well after its ostensible demise. An important study for scholars of slavery and the US Civil War"-- Provided by publisher.
Note
Based on author's thesis (doctoral - University of California, Berkeley, 2015) issued under title: Litigating emancipation : slavery's legal afterlife, 1865-1877.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Available in Other Form
Online version: Perrone, Giuliana, 1982- Nothing more than freedom. Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023
Call Number
KF4757 .P47 2023
Language
English
ISBN
9781009219198 hardcover
1009219197 hardcover
9781009219181 electronic book
9781009219167 electronic book
1009219197 hardcover
9781009219181 electronic book
9781009219167 electronic book
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