| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 274 pages) |
| Series |
Cambridge historical studies in American law and society |
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Cambridge historical studies in American law and society.
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| Contents |
Introduction -- Chattel -- Bonds -- In rem -- Equity -- Res publica -- Conclusion |
| Summary |
Bonds of Empire presents an account of slave law that is entirely new: one in which English law imbued plantation slavery with its staying power even as it insulated slave owners from contemplating the moral implications of owning human beings. Emphasizing practice rather than proscription, the book follows South Carolina colonists as they used English law to maximize the value of the people they treated as property. Doing so reveals that most daily legal practices surrounding slave ownership were derived from English law: colonists categorized enslaved people as property using English legal terms, they bought and sold them with printed English legal forms, and they followed English legal procedures as they litigated over enslaved people in court. Bonds of Empire ultimately shows that plantation slavery and the laws that governed it were not beyond the pale of English imperial legal history; they were yet another invidious manifestation of English law's protean potential |
| Notes |
Based on author's thesis (doctoral -University of Virginia, 2014) issued under title: Masters of law : English legal culture and the law of slavery in colonial South Carolina and the British Atlantic world, 1669-1783 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 09, 2021) |
| Subject |
Slavery -- Law and legislation -- South Carolina -- History -- 18th century
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Law -- South Carolina -- English influences
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Law -- English influences
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Slavery -- Law and legislation
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| SUBJECT |
South Carolina -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125555
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| Subject |
South Carolina
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2021026920 |
| ISBN |
9781108861762 |
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1108861768 |
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9781108852494 |
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1108852491 |
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