Slavery and the law / ed. by P Finkelman.

Madison, Wis. : Madison House, 1997.

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Slavery -- United States -- History.

Introduction

Part I Theories of democracy and the law of slavery

1. Learning the three "I"s of America's slave heritage

2. Ideology and imagery in the law of slavery

Part II Constitutional law and slavery

3. Slavery in the Canon of constitutional Law

4. Chief Justice Hornblower of New Jersey and the fugitive slave law of 1793

5. A federal assault: African-Americans and the impact of fugitive slave law of 1850

6. The crisis over The Impending Crisis: free speech, slavery, and the fourteenth amendment

Part 111 Criminal and civil law of slavery

7. Slaves and the rules of evidence in criminal trials

8. "Details are of a most revolting character": cruelty to slaves as seen in appeals to the Supreme Court of Louisiana

Part IV Comparative Law and Slavery

11. Seventeenth-Century Jurists, Roman Law, and Slavery

12. The British Constitution and the Creation of American Slavery

13. Thinking Property at Rome

14. Thinking Property at Memphis: An Application of Watson.

Includes index.

0945612362

viii, 465 p. ; 24 cm