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

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"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"--

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Studies in legal history.
Main Author: Perrone, Giuliana, 1982- (Author)
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023.
Series:Studies in legal history.
Subjects:
Freed persons > Legal status, laws, etc. > Southern States > History > 19th century.
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
Freed persons > Legal status, laws, etc.
Southern States.
United States.
1800-1899
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:280 pages.
Format: Book

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