Double Character Slavery and Mastery in the Antebellum Southern Courtroom

Name: Double Character Slavery and Mastery in the Antebellum Southern Courtroom
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ISBN: 9780820328607

ISBN-10: 082032860X

ISBN-13: 9780820328607

Edition: 2006

Authors: Ariela J. Gross, Paul Finkelman, Kermit Hall, Timothy S. Huebner

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This groundbreaking study of the law and culture of slavery in the antebellum Deep South takes readers into local courtrooms where people settled their civil disputes over property. Buyers sued sellers for breach of warranty when they considered slaves to be physically or morally defective; owners sued supervisors who whipped or neglected slaves under their care.How, asks Ariela J. Gross, did communities reconcile the dilemmas such trials raised concerning the character of slaves and masters? Although slaves could not testify in court, their character was unavoidably at issue--and so their moral agency intruded into the courtroom. In addition, says Gross, "wherever the argument that black…

Book details

List price: $32.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Publication date: 10/15/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 276
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.66" tall
Weight: 1.078
Language: English