Slave Laws In Virginia
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Author |
: Philip J. Schwarz |
Publisher |
: University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages |
: 274 |
Release |
: 2010-05-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780820335162 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0820335169 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (62 Downloads) |
Synopsis Slave Laws in Virginia by : Philip J. Schwarz
The five essays in Slave Laws in Virginia explore two centuries of the ever-changing relationship between a major slave society and the laws that guided it. The topics covered are diverse, including the African judicial background of African American slaves, Thomas Jefferson's relationship with the laws of slavery, the capital punishment of slaves, nineteenth-century penal transportation of slaves from Virginia as related to the interstate slave trade and the changing market for slaves, and Virginia's experience with its own fugitive slave laws. Through the history of one large extended family of ex-slaves, Philip J. Schwarz's conclusion examines how the law shaped the interaction between former slaves and masters after emancipation. Instead of relying on a static view of these two centuries, the author focuses on the diverse and changing ways that lawmakers and law enforcers responded to slaves' behavior and to whites' perceptions of and assumptions about that behavior.
Author |
: Philip J. Schwarz |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 253 |
Release |
: 1996 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0820318310 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780820318318 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (10 Downloads) |
Synopsis Slave Laws in Virginia by : Philip J. Schwarz
The five essays in this work explore the relationship between a slave community and the laws that guided it. The topics covered over two centuries of history, include the capital punishment of slaves, the African judicial background of African-American slaves and Virginia's own slave laws.
Author |
: Virginia |
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: |
Total Pages |
: |
Release |
: 1819 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:958367086 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (86 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Statutes at Large by : Virginia
Author |
: Robert Beverley |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 324 |
Release |
: 1855 |
ISBN-10 |
: UVA:X000428442 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (42 Downloads) |
Synopsis The History of Virginia by : Robert Beverley
Author |
: Philip J. Schwarz |
Publisher |
: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. |
Total Pages |
: 372 |
Release |
: 1998 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781886363540 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1886363544 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (40 Downloads) |
Synopsis Twice Condemned by : Philip J. Schwarz
Analyzes the history of enslaved African Americans' relationship with the criminal courts of the Old Dominion during a 160 year period.
Author |
: Sally E. Hadden |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 360 |
Release |
: 2001-03-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015050476707 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (07 Downloads) |
Synopsis Slave Patrols by : Sally E. Hadden
Hadden examines the patrols, the most frequent enforcers of the laws involving slaves, and how they influenced race relations and the Ku Klux Klan after the Civil War.
Author |
: Anthony S. Parent Jr. |
Publisher |
: UNC Press Books |
Total Pages |
: 308 |
Release |
: 2012-12-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780807839133 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0807839132 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (33 Downloads) |
Synopsis Foul Means by : Anthony S. Parent Jr.
Challenging the generally accepted belief that the introduction of racial slavery to America was an unplanned consequence of a scarce labor market, Anthony Parent, Jr., contends that during a brief period spanning the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries a small but powerful planter class, acting to further its emerging economic interests, intentionally brought racial slavery to Virginia. Parent bases his argument on three historical developments: the expropriation of Powhatan lands, the switch from indentured to slave labor, and the burgeoning tobacco trade. He argues that these were the result of calculated moves on the part of an emerging great planter class seeking to consolidate power through large landholdings and the labor to make them productive. To preserve their economic and social gains, this planter class inscribed racial slavery into law. The ensuing racial and class tensions led elite planters to mythologize their position as gentlemen of pastoral virtue immune to competition and corruption. To further this benevolent image, they implemented a plan to Christianize slaves and thereby render them submissive. According to Parent, by the 1720s the Virginia gentry projected a distinctive cultural ethos that buffered them from their uncertain hold on authority, threatened both by rising imperial control and by black resistance, which exploded in the Chesapeake Rebellion of 1730.
Author |
: Philip J. Schwarz |
Publisher |
: University of Virginia Press |
Total Pages |
: 276 |
Release |
: 2001 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0813920086 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780813920085 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (86 Downloads) |
Synopsis Migrants Against Slavery by : Philip J. Schwarz
A significant number of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Virginians migrated north and west with the intent of extricating themselves from a slave society. All sought some kind of freedom: whites who left the Old Dominion to escape from slavery refused to live any longer as slave owners or as participants in a society grounded in bondage; fugitive slaves attempted to liberate themselves; free African Americans searched for greater opportunity. In Migrants against Slavery Philip J. Schwarz suggests that antislavery migrant Virginians, both the famous--such as fugitive Anthony Burns and abolitionist Edward Coles--and the lesser known, deserve closer scrutiny. Their migration and its aftermath, he argues, intensified the national controversy over human bondage, playing a larger role than previous historians have realized in shaping American identity and in Americans' effort to define the meaning of freedom.
Author |
: Robert Beverley |
Publisher |
: UNC Press Books |
Total Pages |
: 383 |
Release |
: 2014-05-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781469607955 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1469607956 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (55 Downloads) |
Synopsis The History and Present State of Virginia by : Robert Beverley
While in London in 1705, Robert Beverley wrote and published The History and Present State of Virginia, one of the earliest printed English-language histories about North America by an author born there. Like his brother-in-law William Byrd II, Beverley was a scion of Virginia's planter elite, personally ambitious and at odds with royal governors in the colony. As a native-born American--most famously claiming "I am an Indian--he provided English readers with the first thoroughgoing account of the province's past, natural history, Indians, and current politics and society. In this new edition, Susan Scott Parrish situates Beverley and his History in the context of the metropolitan-provincial political and cultural issues of his day and explores the many contradictions embedded in his narrative. Parrish's introduction and the accompanying annotation, along with a fresh transcription of the 1705 publication and a more comprehensive comparison of emendations in the 1722 edition, will open Beverley's History to new, twenty-first-century readings by students of transatlantic history, colonialism, natural science, literature, and ethnohistory.
Author |
: Edward B. Rugemer |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 401 |
Release |
: 2018-11-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780674982994 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0674982991 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (94 Downloads) |
Synopsis Slave Law and the Politics of Resistance in the Early Atlantic World by : Edward B. Rugemer
Winner of the Jerry H. Bentley Book Prize, World History Association The success of the English colony of Barbados in the seventeenth century, with its lucrative sugar plantations and enslaved African labor, spawned the slave societies of Jamaica in the western Caribbean and South Carolina on the American mainland. These became the most prosperous slave economies in the Anglo-American Atlantic, despite the rise of enlightened ideas of liberty and human dignity. Slave Law and the Politics of Resistance in the Early Atlantic World reveals the political dynamic between slave resistance and slaveholders’ power that marked the evolution of these societies. Edward Rugemer shows how this struggle led to the abolition of slavery through a law of British Parliament in one case and through violent civil war in the other. In both Jamaica and South Carolina, a draconian system of laws and enforcement allowed slave masters to maintain control over the people they enslaved, despite resistance and recurrent slave revolts. Brutal punishments, patrols, imprisonment, and state-sponsored slave catchers formed an almost impenetrable net of power. Yet slave resistance persisted, aided and abetted by rising abolitionist sentiment and activity in the Anglo-American world. In South Carolina, slaveholders exploited newly formed levers of federal power to deflect calls for abolition and to expand slavery in the young republic. In Jamaica, by contrast, whites fought a losing political battle against Caribbean rebels and British abolitionists who acted through Parliament. Rugemer’s comparative history spanning two hundred years of slave law and political resistance illuminates the evolution and ultimate collapse of slave societies in the Atlantic World.