The origins of legal transplantation in the British West Indies, 1500-1700s -- The origins of slave laws within the British West Indies, 1600s -- The comprehensive slave codes of the British West Indies and their reverberations, 1660-1700s -- The role of legal transplantation within Manumission law and other ameliorative measures -- Legal transplantation within post emancipatory British West Indies, 1830s-1870s.
Summary:
"This book provides a legal historical insight into colonial laws on enslavement and the plantation system in the British West Indies. The volume is a work of comparative legal history of the English-Speaking Caribbean which concentrates on how the laws of England served to catalyse the slavery laws and also legislation pertaining to post-emancipation societies. The book illustrates how these "borrowed" laws from England not only developed colonial slavery laws within the English speaking Caribbean but also inspired the slavery codes of a number of North American plantation systems. The cusp of the work focuses on the interconnectivities among the English-speaking slave holding Atlantic and how persons, free and unfree, moved throughout the system and brought laws with them which greatly affected the various enslaved societies"-- Provided by publisher.
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