Charles B. Warren is an award-winning author living in Bartow, Florida just a few miles from the impressive home Lawrence Brown built to raise his family. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Neighborhood Improvement Corporation of Bartow, Inc., the organization that owns and manages the historic Brown House. Warren found the story of Lawrence Brown compelling-Brown was born into slavery, yet became a successful entrepreneur during dangerous times for black men-and L. B. Brown serves as an inspiration for younger generations. These two factors provided the compelling force that led him to record the history of the man and his time.
Part I. Colonial Bar: Preface
The first American address to lawyers
Introductory: law without lawyers
1. English law, law books and lawyers in the seventeenth century
2. The colonial bar of Virginia and Maryland
3. Colonial Massachusetts bar
4. Colonial New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey
5. The colonial Southern bar
6. New England colonial bar
7. The law and lawyers in England in the eighteenth century
8. A colonial lawyer's education
9. Early American barristers, and bar associations
Part II. Federal Bar: 10. Prejudices against law and lawyers
11. The federal bar and law, 1789-1815
12. Early state bars of New York and New England
13. Early American law books
14. Early law professorships and schools
15. The Federal bar and the law, 1815-30
16. The Federal bar and law, 1830-60
17. The progress of the law, 1830-60
18. The rise of railroad and corporation law
19. The era of codes, 1820-60
20. American law books, 1815-1910
Appendix
Index.
