The Resource Homicide justified : the legality of killing slaves in the United States and the Atlantic world, Andrew T. Fede
Homicide justified : the legality of killing slaves in the United States and the Atlantic world, Andrew T. Fede
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- Summary
- "This comparative study looks at the laws concerning the murder of slaves by their masters and at how these laws were implemented. [The author] cites a wide range of cases{u2015}across time, place, and circumstance{u2015}to illuminate legal, judicial, and other complexities surrounding this regrettably common occurrence. These laws had evolved to limit in different ways the masters{u2019} rights to severely punish and even kill their slaves while protecting valuable enslaved people, understood as 'property, ' from wanton destruction by hirers, overseers, and poor whites who did not own slaves. To explore the conflicts of masters{u2019} rights with state and colonial laws, [the author] shows how slave homicide law evolved and was enforced not only in the United States but also in ancient Roman, Visigoth, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and British jurisdictions. [The author's] comparative approach reveals how legal reforms regarding slave homicide in antebellum times, like past reforms dictated by emperors and kings, were the products of changing perceptions of the interests of the public; of the individual slave owners; and of the slave owners{u2019} families, heirs, and creditors. Although some slave murders came to be regarded as capital offenses, the laws con{u00AD}sistently reinforced the second-class status of slaves. This influence...flowed over into the application of law to free African Americans and would even make itself felt in the legal attitudes that underlay the Jim Crow era."--
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xiii, 343 pages
- Isbn
- 9780820351124
- Label
- Homicide justified : the legality of killing slaves in the United States and the Atlantic world
- Title
- Homicide justified
- Title remainder
- the legality of killing slaves in the United States and the Atlantic world
- Statement of responsibility
- Andrew T. Fede
- Subject
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- Homicide -- Atlantic Ocean Region -- History
- Slavery -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History
- Homicide -- United States -- History
- Slaves -- Legal status, laws, etc
- Slaves -- Violence against -- United States -- History
- Slavery -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History
- Slaves -- Violence against -- Atlantic Ocean Region -- History
- Slavery -- Law and legislation -- Atlantic Ocean Region -- History
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "This comparative study looks at the laws concerning the murder of slaves by their masters and at how these laws were implemented. [The author] cites a wide range of cases{u2015}across time, place, and circumstance{u2015}to illuminate legal, judicial, and other complexities surrounding this regrettably common occurrence. These laws had evolved to limit in different ways the masters{u2019} rights to severely punish and even kill their slaves while protecting valuable enslaved people, understood as 'property, ' from wanton destruction by hirers, overseers, and poor whites who did not own slaves. To explore the conflicts of masters{u2019} rights with state and colonial laws, [the author] shows how slave homicide law evolved and was enforced not only in the United States but also in ancient Roman, Visigoth, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and British jurisdictions. [The author's] comparative approach reveals how legal reforms regarding slave homicide in antebellum times, like past reforms dictated by emperors and kings, were the products of changing perceptions of the interests of the public; of the individual slave owners; and of the slave owners{u2019} families, heirs, and creditors. Although some slave murders came to be regarded as capital offenses, the laws con{u00AD}sistently reinforced the second-class status of slaves. This influence...flowed over into the application of law to free African Americans and would even make itself felt in the legal attitudes that underlay the Jim Crow era."--
- Assigning source
- Back cover
- Cataloging source
- DLC
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- Fede, Andrew
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- Series statement
- Southern legal studies
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Slavery
- Slavery
- Homicide
- Homicide
- Slaves
- Slaves
- Slaves
- Label
- Homicide justified : the legality of killing slaves in the United States and the Atlantic world, Andrew T. Fede
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-331) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- xiii, 343 pages
- Isbn
- 9780820351124
- Isbn Type
- (hardback : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2016055418
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- Note
- GOBI Library Solutions from EBSCO
- System control number
- (OCoLC)960033753
- Label
- Homicide justified : the legality of killing slaves in the United States and the Atlantic world, Andrew T. Fede
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-331) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- xiii, 343 pages
- Isbn
- 9780820351124
- Isbn Type
- (hardback : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2016055418
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- Note
- GOBI Library Solutions from EBSCO
- System control number
- (OCoLC)960033753
Subject
- Homicide -- Atlantic Ocean Region -- History
- Homicide -- United States -- History
- Slavery -- Law and legislation -- Atlantic Ocean Region -- History
- Slavery -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History
- Slavery -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History
- Slaves -- Legal status, laws, etc
- Slaves -- Violence against -- Atlantic Ocean Region -- History
- Slaves -- Violence against -- United States -- History
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