Double Character - Slavery And Mastery in the Antebellum Southern Courtroom

Informationen zum Autor ARIELA J. GROSS is a professor of law and history at the University of Southern California, where she is also codirector of the Center for Law, History, and Culture. Klappentext A study of the law and culture of slavery in the antebellum Deep South that takes readers into local courtrooms where people settled their civil disputes over property. This work sheds light on the law as a dramatic ritual in people's daily lives! and advances critical historical debates about law! honor! and commerce in the American South. Zusammenfassung This groundbreaking study of the law and culture of slavery in the antebellum Deep South combines methods of cultural anthropology, quantitative social history, and critical race theory to reveal the law as a dramatic ritual in people's daily lives and to advance critical historical debates about law, honor, and commerce in the American South.

Product details

• Authors: Ariela Gross, Ariela J. Gross, Ariela Julie Gross
• Assisted by: Paul Finkelman (Editor), Kermit Hall (Editor)
• Publisher: The University of Georgia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.10.2006
• EAN: 9780820328607
• ISBN: 978-0-8203-2860-7
• No. of pages: 263
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 222 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Studies in the Legal History o
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Law > Civil law, civil procedural law