Linda Myrsiades

From Treason to Runaway Slaves

Legal Culture in New Republic Trials, 1783-1808

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

From Treason to Runaway Slaves provides case studies of high-profile trials from the early republic examined in terms of the period's history, law, and culture. It focuses on a historical period and place crucial to identity formation in the new nation and the survival of the U. S. as a democratic experiment.

Produktdetails

• The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Law, Culture, and the Humanities
• Verlag: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
• Seitenzahl: 298
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 639g
• ISBN-13: 9781683933847
• ISBN-10: 1683933842
• Artikelnr.: 68537066

Autorenporträt

Linda Myrsiades is professor emerita at West Chester University.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter One: Trying Military Law: The Hazen-Reid Feud and the Case of Judge
Advocate General Thomas Edwards, 1783
Chapter Two: "The Crooks of the Law": The Trial of Mamachtaga, the Delaware
Indian, 1785
Chapter Three: "A fine peace of Land": Settlers' Rights and Land Titles in
George Washington v. James Scott, et al., 1786
Chapter Four: "Whiskey Boys" and the "Pole Gentry": Treason and the Whiskey
Rebellion Trials, 1795
Chapter Five: Sangrado v. The Cloven Foot: The Libel Trial of Benjamin Rush
v. William Cobbett, 1799
Chapter Six: "I will a tale unfold": The Murder Trial of John Joyce and
Peter Matthias, 1808