Nothing More Than Freedom - The Failure of Abolition in American Law

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.

List of contents

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.

About the author

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

Product details

• Authors: Giuliana Perrone, Giuliana (University of California Perrone
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2025
• EAN: 9781009219174
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0921917-4
• No. of pages: 332
• Series: Studies in Legal History
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Law > General, dictionaries; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), LAW / Legal History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Legal History, History of the Americas, Slavery & abolition of slavery, C 1700 To C 1800, Slavery and abolition of slavery