Local matters race, crime, and justice in the nineteenth-century South / edited by Christopher Waldrep & Donald G. Nieman.

Other author Waldrep, Christopher, 1951-
Other author Nieman, Donald G., Ph.D.
Format Book
Publication InfoAthens : University of Georgia Press, ©2001.
Descriptionxix, 259 pages ; 24 cm.
Subjects
Slavery--Law and legislation. --Southern States. --History. --19th century.
Discrimination in justice administration--Southern States. --History. --19th century.
African Americans--Legal status, laws, etc. --Southern States. --History. --19th century.
African American criminals--Southern States. --History. --19th century.
Southern States--Race relations. --History. --19th century.

SeriesStudies in the legal history of the South
Studies in the legal history of the South. ^A388391
Contents Judging slavery: Thomas Ruffin and State v. Mann / Sally Hadden -- The roots of fairness: State v. Caesar and slave justice in antebellum North Carolina / Timothy S. Huebner -- Slaves and crime: New Orleans, 1840-1862 / Judith Kelleher Schafer -- The law and the culture of slavery: Natchez, Mississippi / Ariela Gross -- Women and the law: domestic discord in North Carolina after the Civil War / Laura F. Edwards -- Extralegal violence and the planter class: the Ku Klux Klan in the Alabama Black belt during Reconstruction / Michael W. Fitzgerald -- Federal enforcement of Black rights in the post-redemption South: the Ellenton riot case / Lou Falkner Williams -- African American communities, politics, and justice: Washington County, Texas, 1865-1890 / Donald G. Nieman -- Black political leadership: Warren County, Mississippi / Christopher Waldrep.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 00044725
ISBN0820322474 (alk. paper)

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