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Pages: 361
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018 - Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Language: en
Pages: 396
Pages: 396
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Language: en
Pages: 323
Pages: 323
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-01-02 - Publisher: UNC Press Books
In the antebellum Natchez district, in the heart of slave country, black people sued white people in all-white courtrooms. They sued to enforce the terms of the
Language: en
Pages: 310
Pages: 310
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-04-15 - Publisher: University of Georgia Press
The Dred Scott suit for freedom, argues Kelly M. Kennington, was merely the most famous example of a phenomenon that was more widespread in antebellum American
Language: en
Pages: 557
Pages: 557
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005 - Publisher: Backintyme
Annotation. This analysis of the nearly 300 appealed court cases that decided the "race" of individual Americans may be the most thorough study of the legal his