Slavery on trial: race, class and criminal justice in Antebellum Richmond, Virginia
Abandoned to causes of corruption : slave life and policing in the city -- "An evil which demands a speedy remedy" : white criminality in an urban slave society -- "The victim of prejudice and hasty consideration" : slave trials, clemency, and punishment -- "With these poor...
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Medienart: | Druck Buch |
Sprache: | Englisch |
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Gainesville [u.a.]
University Press of Florida
2007
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In: | Jahr: 2007 |
Bestand in Tübingen: | In Tübingen vorhanden. UB: KB 20 A 2987 |
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Zusammenfassung: | Abandoned to causes of corruption : slave life and policing in the city -- "An evil which demands a speedy remedy" : white criminality in an urban slave society -- "The victim of prejudice and hasty consideration" : slave trials, clemency, and punishment -- "With these poor rogues their judge had never dined" : honor, law, and the trial and punishment of white criminals -- The "stigma, of the deepest degradation, was fixed upon the whole race" : free African Americans and the criminal justice system |
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Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
Beschreibung: | XIII, 264 S. |
ISBN: | 9780813030913 |