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The Bondsman's Burden: An Economic Analysis of the Common Law of Southern Slavery

The Bondsman's Burden: An Economic Analysis of the Common Law of Southern Slavery

Hardcover

Series: Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society

19th Century United States HistoryBlack American StudiesGeneral Law

ISBN10: 0521592380
ISBN13: 9780521592383
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Nov 13 1997
Pages: 292
Weight: 1.28
Height: 0.82 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Were slaves property or human beings under the law? Antebellum Southern judges designed efficient laws that protected property rights and helped slavery remain economically viable, laws that sheltered the persons embodied by that propertySH-the slaves themselves. Unintentionally, these judges generated rules applicable to ordinary Americans. Wahl provides a rigorous, compelling economic analysis of the common law of Southern slavery, inspecting thousands of legal disputes.

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