Title The demands of justice : enslaved women, capital crime, and clemency in early Virginia / Tamika Y. Nunley

Published Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2023] ©2023

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 243 pages) : illustrations Contents Virginian luxuries -- Poison -- Murder -- Infanticide -- Insurgency Summary "Less a legal history and more an examination of gender, race, crime, and punishment in the antebellum era, Nunley's book measures the limits and possibilities of justice for enslaved women accused of attempting to or succeeding in committing grave crimes against their owners. Immersing herself in hundreds of court cases, executive orders, transportation records of the state treasury, and newspapers from a single state - Virginia - Tamika Nunley has unearthed the stories of enslaved women charged by their owners with poisoning, theft, murder, infanticide, and arson"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-230) and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (Project MUSE, viewed July 2, 2023) Subject Enslaved women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Virginia -- History -- 18th century Enslaved women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Virginia -- History -- 19th century African American women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Virginia -- History -- 18th century African American women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Virginia -- History -- 19th century Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- Virginia -- History -- 19th century Female offenders -- Virginia -- History -- 19th century Criminal law -- Social aspects -- Virginia -- History -- 19th century Clemency -- Virginia -- History -- 19th century HISTORY / United States / 19th Century Race relations Female offenders Discrimination in criminal justice administration Criminal law -- Social aspects Clemency SUBJECT Virginia -- Race relations -- History Subject Virginia Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781469673134 1469673134 9781469673110 1469673118

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