Giuliana Perrone (Santa Barbara University of California)

Nothing More Than Freedom

The Failure of Abolition in American Law

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Produktbeschreibung

After examining more than 700 lawsuits decided by the supreme courts of former slave states, Giuliana Perrone asserts that slavery remained actionable in American law well after its ostensible demise. An important study for scholars of slavery and the US Civil War.

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Produktdetails

• Studies in Legal History
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Mai 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 650g
• ISBN-13: 9781009219198
• ISBN-10: 1009219197
• Artikelnr.: 65954508

Autorenporträt

Giuliana Perrone is Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: an abolitionist vision
1. The contract controversy
2. 'Wreck and ruin'
3. 'By force it was destroyed'
4. Confederate reckonings
5. Life after the death of slavery
6. 'Back into the days of slavery'
7. 'The grave question'
8. Final failure
Epilogue: an abolitionist revision.