Kimberly M. Welch, Black Litigants in the Antebellum American South (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2018). via UNC Press: "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 their contracts, recover unpaid debts, recuperate back … Continue reading BOOK: Welch on Black Litigants in the Antebellum South
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ARTICLE: Morgan on Partus Sequitur Ventrem: Law, Race, and Reproduction in Colonial Slavery
New work by Jennifer Morgan!
BOOK: Jones on Race, Rights and Birthright Citizenship
Martha S. Jones, Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America (Cambridge University Press, 2018). via Cambridge: "Before the Civil War, colonization schemes and black laws threatened to deport former slaves born in the United States. Birthright Citizens recovers the story of how African American activists remade national belonging through battles in … Continue reading BOOK: Jones on Race, Rights and Birthright Citizenship
ARTICLE: King on Enslaved Women, Murder, and Southern Courts
Wilma King, "Mad" Enough to Kill: Enslaved Women, Murder, and Southern Courts, The Journal of African American History, Vol. 92, No. 1, Women, Slavery, and Historical Research (Winter, 2007), pp. 37-56 "More than two hundred Missourians petitioned Governor John C. Edwards to pardon Nelly, an enslaved teenager indicted for an 1846 murder in Warren County, … Continue reading ARTICLE: King on Enslaved Women, Murder, and Southern Courts
DIGITAL: Slavery and the Law in the ProQuest “History Vault”
Slavery and the Law in the ProQuest "History Vault:" "Slavery and the Law features petitions on race, slavery, and free blacks that were submitted to state legislatures and county courthouses between 1775 and 1867. These petitions were collected by Loren Schweninger over a four year period from hundreds of courthouses and historical societies in 10 … Continue reading DIGITAL: Slavery and the Law in the ProQuest “History Vault”
BOOK: Paton on Crime, Punishment, and Gender in Jamaica
Diana Paton, No Bond but the Law: Punishment, Race, and Gender in Jamaican State Formation, 1780–1870. Duke University Press, 2004. via Duke U Press: "Investigating the cultural, social, and political histories of punishment during ninety years surrounding the 1838 abolition of slavery in Jamaica, Diana Paton challenges standard historiographies of slavery and discipline. The abolition … Continue reading BOOK: Paton on Crime, Punishment, and Gender in Jamaica
VIDEO: Morgan, ‘Partus Sequitur Ventrem’: Law and Re/Production for Enslaved Women
Keynote Address by Professor Jennifer Morgan, New York University to the conference Pregnancy, Childbearing and Infant Care: Historical Perspectives from Slave and Non-Slave Societies
White on “Listening to the Enslaved” | openDemocracy
Sophie White on slave testimony and engaging the archive: "Indeed, far from seeing a court appearance as exclusively antagonistic, the enslaved sometimes seized the opportunity to testify. When they did so, they tended to move past the specifics of the court case. The importance of this archive therefore lies not in its presentation of factual … Continue reading White on “Listening to the Enslaved” | openDemocracy
AUDIO: Kelley on Michael Brown And Dred Scott | Here & Now
via Here & Now:There have been violent protests against the police in Ferguson, Missouri, for more than a week, since police shot and killed an unarmed black teenager named Michael Brown.An African-American professor watching the situation sees a link between what’s happening in Missouri today and what happened in the state in the 1800s when … Continue reading AUDIO: Kelley on Michael Brown And Dred Scott | Here & Now
BOOK: Edwards on Legal Culture of the Post-Revolutionary South
Laura F. Edwards. The People and Their Peace: Legal Culture and the Transformation of Inequality in the Post-revolutionary South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009. via UNC Press: In the half-century following the Revolutionary War, the logic of inequality underwent a profound transformation within the southern legal system. Drawing on extensive archival research in … Continue reading BOOK: Edwards on Legal Culture of the Post-Revolutionary South
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