The people and their peace : legal culture and the transformation of inequality in the post-revolutionary south

The people and their peace legal culture and the transformation of inequality in the post-revolutionary south

All was chaos in our legal world : excavating localized law from beneath the layers of southern history -- Keeping the peace : people's proximity to law -- Bread from chaff: defining offenses against the peace -- Possession and the personality of property: the material basis of authority -- Was...

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1. Verfasser: Edwards, Laura F. (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Chapel Hill, N.C. University of North Carolina Press 2009
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Law > Social aspects > Women > Legal status, laws, etc > Slaves > Free African Americans > People with social disabilities > Legal status, laws, etc. > USA > Bürgerrecht > Ungleichheit > Geschichte 1783-1840
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Zusammenfassung:All was chaos in our legal world : excavating localized law from beneath the layers of southern history -- Keeping the peace : people's proximity to law -- Bread from chaff: defining offenses against the peace -- Possession and the personality of property: the material basis of authority -- Wasted substance: the operation and regulation of patriarchy -- Subjects vs. rights-holding individuals -- New states : freemen as consistent units of measure.
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (p. 375-410) and index
Beschreibung:XVI, 430 S.
Ill.
25 cm
ISBN:9780807832639
978-0-8078-3263-9
0807832634
0-8078-3263-4