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Author:

Perrone, Giuliana, 1982- author.

Title:

Nothing more than freedom : the failure of abolition in American law / Giuliana Perrone, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press,

Copyright Date:

2023

Description:

xv, 316 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Freed persons--History--Southern States--History--19th century.
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
African Americans--History--History--19th century.
Slavery--United States--History--19th century.

Notes:

Based on author's thesis (doctoral - University of California, Berkeley, 2015) issued under title: Litigating emancipation : slavery's legal afterlife, 1865-1877. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction: An abolitionist vision -- The contract controversy -- Wreck and ruin -- By force it was destroyed -- Confederate reckonings -- Life after the death of slavery -- Back into the days of slavery -- The grave question -- Final failure -- Epilogue: An abolitionist revision.

Summary:

"After examining more than 700 lawsuits decided by the supreme courts of former slave states, Giuliana Perrone asserts that slavery remained actionable in American law well after its ostensible demise. An important study for scholars of slavery and the US Civil War"-- Provided by publisher.

Series:

Studies in legal history

ISBN:

1009219197
9781009219198

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1345221928

LCCN:

2022041624

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)