Slavery on trial: race, class, and criminal justice in Antebellum Richmond, Virginia
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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Campbell, James M. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Gainesville, Fla. Univ. Press of Florida 2007
Series:New perspectives on the history of the South
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-254) and index
Abandoned to causes of corruption : slave life and policing in the city -- "An evil which demands a speedy remedy" : white criminality in an urban slave society -- "The victim of prejudice and hasty consideration" : slave trials, clemency, and punishment -- "With these poor rogues their judge had never dined" : honor, law, and the trial and punishment of white criminals -- The "stigma, of the deepest degradation, was fixed upon the whole race" : free African Americans and the criminal justice system
Physical Description:XIII, 264 S. Ill., Kt. 24 cm