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Product Description: Reprinted from the Garland series: Slavery, Race, and the American Legal System, 1700-1872. The facsimiles of antebellum pamphlets in these volumes deal with slave revolts and efforts to help slaves escape bondage. Most involve rebel slaves and "slave stealers," others deal with activities of white journalists and divines that were considered inflammatory...read more

Product Description: Free Blacks, Slaves, and Slaveowners in Civil and Criminal Courts: The Pamphlet Literature. New York & London: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1988. 2 Vols. 642 pp. With a New Introduction by Paul Finkelman. Reprinted 2007, 2013 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd...read more

Product Description: Statutes on Slavery: The Pamphlet Literature. New York & London: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1988. 2 Vols. 794 pp. With a New Introduction by Paul Finkelman. Reprinted 2007, 2013 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781584777410; Hardcover...read more

Explores how all aspects of American culture, history, and national identity have been profoundly influenced by the experience of African Americans and documents African American history from the arrival of the first slave ship to the death of Frederick Douglass.

Through an in-depth review of the Constitutional Convention and those involved in the creation of this important document, the structure of the American democracy that still exists today is examined in detail along with an overview to other key elements, such as the New Jersey Plan and the Three-fifths Compromise.

Through an in-depth review of the Constitutional Convention and those involved in the creation of this important document, the structure of the American democracy that still exists today is examined in detail along with an overview to other key elements, such as the New Jersey Plan and the Three-fifths Compromise.

An encyclopedia of early American history offers 667 entries accompanied by photographs, facsimiles, and maps exploring the people, events, social trends, politics, economics and innovations of the new nation.

Product Description: More than two centuries after his birth and almost a century and a half after his death, the legendary life and legacy of John Brown go marching on. Variously deemed martyr, madman, monster, terrorist, and saint, he remains one of the most controversial figures in America's history...read more

Product Description: Revised and expanded in this third edition, American Legal History now features a new coauthor, James Ely, who is a specialist in the history of property rights. This highly acclaimed text provides a comprehensive selection of the most important documents in the field, which integrates the history of public and private law from America's colonial origins to the present...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Book by Urofsky, Melvin I., Finkelman, Paul

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Product Description: An important new reference that provides the historical context and constitutional perspective of more than 1,000 of the most important Supreme Court cases. Landmark Decisions of the United States Supreme Court provides an unparalleled history of the Supreme Court and its impact on American democracy and society...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Central to the development of the American legal system, writes Professor Finkelman in Slavery & the Law, is the institution of slavery. It informs us not only about early concepts of race and property, but about the nature of American democracy itself.Prominent historians of slavery and legal scholars analyze the intricate relationship between slavery, race, and the law from the earliest Black Codes in colonial America to the passage of the Fugitive Slave Law and the Dred Scott decision prior to the Civil War. Slavery & the Law's wide-ranging essays focus on comparative slave law, auctioneering practices, rules of evidence, and property rights, as well as issues of criminality, punishment, and constitutional law.What emerges from this multi-faceted portrait is a complex legal system designed to ensure the property rights of slave-holders and to institutionalize racism. The ultimate result was to strengthen the institution of slavery in the midst of a growing trend toward democracy in the mid-nineteenth-century Atlantic community. (view table of contents)

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Product Description: Documents of American Constitutional and Legal History, 2/e, is a two-volume companion to Urofsky and Finkelman's successful text, A March of Liberty, 2/e. Organized chronologically, this documents reader skillfully weaves together constitutional and legal history, offering students a mix of both frequently cited and lesser-known-but equally important-historical documents and court decisions that have been instrumental in shaping the nation's constitutional development...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)