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A Peculiar Humanism: The Judicial Advocacy of Slavery in High Courts of the Old South, 1820-1850 (Studies in the Legal History of the South)
A Peculiar Humanism The Judicial Advocacy of Slavery in High Courts of the Old South 18201850 - Studies in the Legal History of the South Author:William E. Wiethoff Assessing the judicial use of oratory in reviewing slave cases and the struggle to fashion a humanist jurisprudence on slavery despite the restraints placed on judicial advocacy, this work examines the public addresses, judicial narratives and private papers of 69 appellate judges.