American Law of Slavery, 1810-1860 (eBook)

Considerations of Humanity and Interest

Mark Tushnet (Autor)

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2019
272 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-19815-6 (ISBN)

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In an examination of Southern slave law between 1810 and 1860, Mark Tushnet reveals a structured dichotomy between slave labor systems and bourgeois systems of production. Whereas the former rest on the total dominion of the master over the slave and necessitate a concern for the slave's humanity, the latter rest of the purchase by the capitalist of a worker's labor power only and are concerned primarily with economic interest. Focusing on a wide range of issues that include contract and accident law as well as criminal law and the law of manumission, he shows how Southern slave law had to respond to the competing pressures of humanity and interest.Beginning with a critical evaluation of slave law, the author develops the conceptual framework for his own perspective on the legal system, drawing on the works of Marx and Weber. He then examines four appellate court cases decided in three different states, from civil-law Louisiana to commonlaw North Carolina, at widely separated times, from 1818 to 1858.Professor Tushnet finds that the cases display a continuing but never wholly successful attempt at distinguish between law and sentiment as modes of regulating social interactions involving slaves. Also, the cases show that the primary method of accommodating law and sentiment was an attempt to use rigid categories to confine the law of slavery to what was thought its proper sphere.Mark Tushnet is Professor of Law at the University of Wisconsin.Originally published in 1981.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 19.2.2019
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Schlagworte: Abandonment (legal) • abolitionism • acquittal • Admonition • Aggravation (law) • Ambiguity (law) • American Colonization Society • appellate court • Arkansas Supreme Court • Assumption of risk • attempt • Capital punishment • Codification (law) • Common Law • Common law offence • Contempt of Court • Court of equity • Crime • Crime in North Carolina • Criminal accusation • Criminal Law • Criminal Procedure (Hong Kong) • Critical Legal Studies • Defense of infancy • dichotomy • Eminent domain • English law • Eugene Genovese • exclusionary rule • exculpatory evidence • federal union • felony • Freedom suit • Free negro • George Fitzhugh • Georgia Superior Courts • habeas corpus • Harriet Beecher Stowe • Imprisonment • indictment • injunction • Intention (criminal law) • jacksonian democracy • Law of obligations • Law of the United States • Legal burden of proof • Legal History • Legal Realism • Legislation • Lemuel Shaw • Louisiana Supreme Court • manslaughter • manumission • Mesne profits • misdemeanor • mulatto • Necessity • New Trial • North Carolina Superior Court • North Carolina Supreme Court • Objection (law) • Oppression • Ownership (psychology) • paternalism • plaintiff • Precedent • presumption • private law • Prosecutor • protective laws • Provocation (legal) • punishment • Racism • Roscoe Pound • Rule of Law • Slave Codes • Slave George • Slave name • Slave patrol • Slavery • Slavery in the United States • Sociology of Law • Special court • Special legislation • Standing (law) • State law (United States) • Statute • Statute of limitations • Statutory Law • Swift v. Tyson • Term limit • The Concept of Law • The Peculiar Institution • The Right to Privacy (article) • The Slave Community • Tort • Torture • Turn state's evidence • voluntariness • Ward (law)
• ISBN-10: 0-691-19815-2 / 0691198152
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-19815-6 / 9780691198156