Black litigants in the antebellum American South

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"Black litigants in the antebellum American South"
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Kimberly M. Welch
出版者
  • University of North Carolina Press
出版年月
  • c2018
書籍サイズ
24 cm
シリーズ名/番号
  • : pbk

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Summary: "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" -- Provided by publisher

Bibliography: p. 273-294

Includes index

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