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Double Character: Slavery And Mastery in the Antebellum Southern Courtroom (Studies in the Legal History of the South)
Double Character Slavery And Mastery in the Antebellum Southern Courtroom - Studies in the Legal History of the South
Author: Ariela J. Gross
This groundbreaking study of the law and culture of slavery in the antebellum Deep South takes readers into local courtrooms where people settled their civil disputes over property. Buyers sued sellers for breach of warranty when they considered slaves to be physically or morally defective; owners sued supervisors who whipped or neglected slaves...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780820328607
ISBN-10: 082032860X
Publication Date: 10/15/2006
Pages: 263
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Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Book Type: Paperback
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