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Bondsman's Burden

Jenny Bourne Wahl
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      Were slaves property or human beings under the law? In crafting answers to this question, Southern judges designed efficient laws that protected property rights and helped slavery remain economically viable. But, by preserving property rights, they sheltered the persons embodied by that property - the slaves themselves. Slave law therefore had unintended consequences: it generated rules that judges could apply to free persons, precedents that became the foundation for laws designed to protect ordinary Americans. The Bondsman's Burden, first published in 1998, provides a rigorous and compelling economic analysis of the common law of Southern slavery, inspecting thousands of legal disputes heard in Southern antebellum courts, disputes involving servants, employees, accident victims, animals, and other chattel property, as well as slaves. The common law, although it supported the institution of slavery, did not favor every individual slave owner who brought a grievance to court.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Jenny Bourne Wahl EAN: 9780521592383 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 580 g HEIGHT: 236 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Cambridge University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 1997-11-13 CITY: GENRE: HISTORY / United States / 19th Century WIDTH: 160 cm SPINE:

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      US South, Constitutional and administrative law: general, Slavery and abolition of slavery

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      Were slaves property or human beings under the law? In crafting answers to this question, Southern judges designed efficient laws that protected property rights and helped slavery remain economically viable. But, by preserving property rights, they sheltered the persons embodied by that property - the slaves themselves. Slave law therefore had unintended consequences: it generated rules that judges could apply to free persons, precedents that became the foundation for laws designed to protect ordinary Americans. The Bondsman's Burden, first published in 1998, provides a rigorous and compelling economic analysis of the common law of Southern slavery, inspecting thousands of legal disputes heard in Southern antebellum courts, disputes involving servants, employees, accident victims, animals, and other chattel property, as well as slaves. The common law, although it supported the institution of slavery, did not favor every individual slave owner who brought a grievance to court.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Jenny Bourne Wahl EAN: 9780521592383 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 580 g HEIGHT: 236 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Cambridge University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 1997-11-13 CITY: GENRE: HISTORY / United States / 19th Century WIDTH: 160 cm SPINE:

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      US South, Constitutional and administrative law: general, Slavery and abolition of slavery

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