The bondsman's burden : an economic analysis of the common law of Southern slavery / Jenny Bourne Wahl.
Were slaves property or human beings under the law? In crafting answers to this question, Southern judges designed efficient laws that protected property rights and helped slavery remain economically viable. But, by preserving property rights, they sheltered the persons embodied by that property - t...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
1998.
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| Series: | Cambridge historical studies in American law and society.
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511528712 |
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