Fathers of Conscience

Bernie D Jones

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in the Legal History of the South
• Fathers of Conscience examines high-court decisions in the antebellum South that involved wills in which white male planters bequeathed property, free... Lees meer

Free to Work

James D Schmidt

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in the Legal History of the South
• In this intriguing and innovative work, James D. Schmidt examines federal efforts to establish "free labor" in the South during and after the Civil Wa... Lees meer

The Trial of Democracy

XI Wang

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in the Legal History of the South
• After the Civil War, Republicans teamed with activist African Americans to protect black voting rights through innovative constitutional reforms--a ra... Lees meer

Tyrannicide

Emily Blanck

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in the Legal History of the South
• Tyrannicide uses a captivating narrative to unpack the experiences of slavery and slave law in South Carolina and Massachusetts during the Revolutiona... Lees meer

Elbert Parr Tuttle

Anne Emanuel

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in the Legal History of the South
• This is the first--and the only authorized--biography of Elbert Parr Tuttle (1897-1996), the judge who led the federal court with jurisdiction over mo... Lees meer

The Legal Ideology of Removal

Tim Alan Garrison

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in the Legal History of the South
• This study is the first to show how state courts enabled the mass expulsion of Native Americans from their southern homelands in the 1830s. Our unders... Lees meer

Gender and the Jubilee

Sharon Romeo

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in the Legal History of the South
• Gender and the Jubilee is a bold reconceptualization of black freedom during the Civil War that uncovers the political and constitutional claims made ... Lees meer

Signposts

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in the Legal History of the South
• In Signposts , Sally E. Hadden and Patricia Hagler Minter have assembled seventeen essays, by both established and rising scholars, that showcase new ... Lees meer

A Peculiar Humanism

William E Wiethoff

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in the Legal History of the South
• In early-nineteenth-century America, and especially in the Old South, the use of oratory appealed to legal professionals--judges as well as advocates.... Lees meer

Federal Law and Southern Order

Michal R Belknap

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in the Legal History of the South
• Federal Law and Southern Order , first published in 1987, examines the factors behind the federal government's long delay in responding to racial viol... Lees meer

Defending Constitutional Rights

Frank M Johnson

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in the Legal History of the South
• Federal Judge Frank M. Johnson of Alabama decided many of the most important civil rights and liberties cases in twentieth-century American history. D... Lees meer

Signposts

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in the Legal History of the South
• In Signposts , Sally E. Hadden and Patricia Hagler Minter have assembled seventeen essays, by both established and rising scholars, that showcase new ... Lees meer

Slave Laws in Virginia

Phillip J Schwarz

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in the Legal History of the South
• The five essays in Slave Laws in Virginia explore two centuries of the ever-changing relationship between a major slave society and the laws that guid... Lees meer

Local Matters

• Hardcover | Studies in the Legal History of the South
• A collection of nine community studies showing how racial justice can be shaped by the particulars of time and place. Although each essay is anchored ... Lees meer

The Southern Judicial Tradition

Timothy S Huebner

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in the Legal History of the South
• This first book to examine the lives and work of nineteenth-century southern judges explores the emergence of a southern judiciary and the effects of ... Lees meer

Double Character

Ariela J Gross

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in the Legal History of the South
• This groundbreaking study of the law and culture of slavery in the antebellum Deep South takes readers into local courtrooms where people settled thei... Lees meer

States' Laws on Race and Color

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in the Legal History of the South
• This remarkable, hard-to-find resource is an exhaustive compilation of state laws and local ordinances in effect in 1950 that mandated racial segregat... Lees meer

Jury Discrimination

Christopher Waldrep

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in the Legal History of the South
• In 1906 a white lawyer named Dabney Marshall argued a case before the Mississippi Supreme Court demanding the racial integration of juries. He carried... Lees meer

James McHenry, Forgotten Federalist

Karen E Robbins

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in the Legal History of the South
• A Scots-Irish immigrant, James McHenry determined to make something of his life. Trained as a physician, he joined the American Revolution when war br... Lees meer

Local Matters

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in the Legal History of the South
• Much of the current reassessment of race, culture, and criminal justice in the nineteenth-century South has been based on intensive community studies.... Lees meer

The Long, Lingering Shadow

Robert J Cottrol

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in the Legal History of the South
• Students of American history know of the law's critical role in systematizing a racial hierarchy in the United States. Showing that this history is be... Lees meer

From Maverick to Mainstream

David J Langum, Howard P Walthall

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in the Legal History of the South
• Founded in 1847 in Lebanon, Tennessee, the Cumberland School of Law holds a unique place in the history of American legal education. As the premier la... Lees meer

James McHenry, Forgotten Federalist

Karen E Robbins

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in the Legal History of the South
• A Scots-Irish immigrant, James McHenry determined to make something of his life. Trained as a physician, he joined the American Revolution when war br... Lees meer

Jury Discrimination

Christopher Waldrep

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in the Legal History of the South
• In 1906 a white lawyer named Dabney Marshall argued a case before the Mississippi Supreme Court demanding the racial integration of juries. He carried... Lees meer