Jefferson s Freeholders and the Politics of Ownership in the Old - Dominio

Informationen zum Autor Christopher Michael Curtis serves as the Department Head for the Department of History at Armstrong State University, Georgia. He is a former Marine Infantry Officer. Klappentext Jefferson's Freeholders and the Politics of Ownership in the Old Dominion explores the historical processes by which Virginia was transformed from a British colony into a Southern slave state. It focuses on changing conceptualizations of ownership and emphasizes the persistent influence of the English common law on Virginia's postcolonial political culture. The book explains how the traditional characteristics of land tenure became subverted by the dynamic contractual relations of a commercial economy and assesses the political consequences of the law reforms that were necessitated by these developments. Nineteenth-century reforms seeking to reconcile the common law with modern commercial practices embraced new democratic expressions about the economic and political power of labor, and thereby encouraged the idea that slavery was an essential element in sustaining republican government in Virginia. By the 1850s, the ownership of human property had replaced the ownership of land as the distinguishing basis for political power, with tragic consequences for the Old Dominion. Zusammenfassung This book explores how Virginia was transformed from a British colony into a Southern slave state. It details how the traditional principles of land tenure were subverted by economic and political changes! and how they fostered law reforms where slavery replaced land ownership as the distinguishing basis for political power. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: the tragedy of ownership; Part I. Renovatio: 2. Taking notice of an error; 3. The chosen people of God; Part II. Reformatio: 4. An invidious and anti-Republican test; 5. Can these be the sons of their fathers?; 6. Doubt seems to have arisen; 7. A new system of jurisprudence; Part III. Conclusion: Reaction....

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• Authors: Christopher Michael Curtis, Christopher Michael (Claflin University Curtis, Curtis Christopher Michael
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2012
• EAN: 9781107017405
• ISBN: 978-1-107-01740-5
• No. of pages: 270
• Series: Cambridge Studies on the Ameri; Cambridge Studies on the American South
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Law > General, dictionaries; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Virginia, LAW / Legal History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, c 1500 onwards to present day, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Legal History, History of the Americas, Slavery & abolition of slavery, National liberation and independence, Slavery and abolition of slavery