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Family, Law, and Inheritance in America : a Social and Legal History of Nineteenth-Century Kentucky by Yvonne Pitts
The Evangelical Origins of the Living Constitution by John W. Compton
The Making of Tocqueville's America - Law and Association in the Early United States by Kevin Butterfield
States of Dependency : Welfare Rights, and American Governance, 1935-1971 by Karen M. Tani
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Black Litigants in the Antebellum American South by Kimberly M. Welch
Black Litigants in the Antebellum American South by Kimberly M. WelchCall Number: 305.896 W439b (Adult nonfiction)
ISBN: 9781469636436
Publication Date: 2018-02-05
This work explores free and enslaved African Americans' involvement in a broad range of civil actions in the Natchez district of Mississippi and Louisiana between 1800 and 1860. Though the antebellum southern courts have long been understood as institutions supporting the class interests and the racial ideologies of the planter and merchant elite, Kimberly Welch shows how black litigants found ways to advocate for themselves even within a racist system. To understand their success, Welch argues that we must understand the language that they used--the language of property, in particular. Because private property and slavery were fundamentally linked in the minds of slave owners, the term 'property' contained a group of metaphors that underwrote a set of white, male claims about autonomy, membership, citizenship, and personhood.