Lee B. Wilson (South Carolina Clemson University)

Bonds of Empire

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Bonds of Empire reveals how English law facilitated the expansion of slavery in British America. Moving beyond an examination of criminal law, the book suggests that plantation slavery and the laws that governed it were not beyond the pale of English imperial legal history.

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Produktdetails

• Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. April 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 450g
• ISBN-13: 9781108817899
• ISBN-10: 1108817890
• Artikelnr.: 70251174

Autorenporträt

Lee B. Wilson is Assistant Professor of History at Clemson University. A historian of colonial British America and the early modern Atlantic world, her research interests include the legal history of early American slave societies, colonial property law, and legal discourse.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Tables
Acknowledgements
A Note on Text
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Chattel
2. Bonds
3. In Rem
4. Equity
5. Res Publica
Conclusion
Index.