Bondsman's Burden

Name: Bondsman's Burden
Brand: Cambridge University Press
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An Economic Analysis of the Common Law of Southern Slavery

Autor: Jenny Bourne Wahl

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Editura: Cambridge University Press

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Were slaves property or human beings under the law? In crafting answers to this question, Southern j...

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Autor

Jenny Bourne Wahl

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

1997

Pagini

292

EAN

9780521592383

ISBN

0521592380

Enbook ID

02036648

Editura

Cambridge University Press

Greutate

580

Dimensiuni

160 x 236 x 23

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Were slaves property or human beings under the law? In crafting answers to this question, Southern judges designed efficient laws that protected property rights and helped slavery remain economically viable. But, by preserving property rights, they sheltered the persons embodied by that property - the slaves themselves. Slave law therefore had unintended consequences: it generated rules that judges could apply to free persons, precedents that became the foundation for laws designed to protect ordinary Americans. The Bondsman's Burden, first published in 1998, provides a rigorous and compelling economic analysis of the common law of Southern slavery, inspecting thousands of legal disputes heard in Southern antebellum courts, disputes involving servants, employees, accident victims, animals, and other chattel property, as well as slaves. The common law, although it supported the institution of slavery, did not favor every individual slave owner who brought a grievance to court.

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