Robert J Cottrol
Biographic Data
| ID | 653433 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert J Cottrol |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert J |
| FAMILY NAME | Cottrol |
| SIGNATURE | COTTROL R J |
| AFFILIATIONS | George Washington University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Mastering the Law: Slavery and Freedom in the Legal Ecology of the Spanish Empire
Students of slavery in the Americas have long recognized that the law of the Spanish Empire provided more in the way of formal, judicially enforceable rights for enslaved people than did the legal regimes of the English, French, Dutch, and other New World empires. That distinction was at the heart of Frank Tannenbaum's 1946 pioneering comparative effort Slave and Citizen: The Negro in the Americas. Tannenbaum's writings helped precipitate a debat…
Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba's Plantations
It has long been recognized that the law of the Spanish empire was more supportive of manumission than was the case with other New World slave regimes. Adriana Chira's Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba's Plantations gives us a nuanced look at the role of law in regulating the lives and possibilities of freedom for quasi-free and enslaved persons in one Spanish venue, Santiago de Cuba in the nineteenth century. Chira's choice …
The Journey to Separate but Equal: Madame DeCuir's Quest for Racial Justice in the Reconstruction Era by Jack M. Beermann
Both scholarly and popular commentators have tended to overlook the 1878 U.S. Supreme Court case Hall v. DeCuir. Unlike the Court’s other postbellum cases, United States v. Cruikshank, the Civil Rights Cases, and, ultimately, Plessy v. Ferguson, that played a major role in thwarting the egalitarian revolution promised by the Fourteenth Amendment and Reconstruction-era Civil Rights legislation, DeCuir has existed in relative obscurity. Beermann go…
Hendrik Hartog. The Trouble with Minna: A Case of Slavery and Emancipation in the Antebellum North
With The Trouble with Minna: A Case of Slavery and Emancipation in the Antebellum North, legal historian Hendrik Hartog skillfully uses the history of a litigation between a slave’s owner and renter to engage more broadly with the story of the slow dissolution of slavery in New Jersey. The case involved an enslaved woman named Minna, the white woman who rented her labor, Elizabeth Haines, and Minna’s owner, Henry Force. The battles that were foug…
The Princeton Fugitive Slave: The Trials of James Collins Johnson
The Princeton Fugitive Slave: The Trials of James Collins Johnson The Princeton Fugitive Slave: The Trials of James Collins Johnson. By Lolita Buckner Inniss. (New York: Fordham University Press, 2019. xxviii, 238 pp. $29.95.) Robert J Cottrol Robert J Cottrol George Washington University, Washington, D.C Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 107, Issue 4, March 2021, Pages 10…
Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America
Martha S. Jones's Birthright Citizens skillfully blends legal and social history to tell the story of the antebellum free-black struggle for citizenship. Covering an era when formal law had become committed to white supremacy and race-based citizenship, Birthright Citizens focuses on Baltimore as a lens through which to view race in antebellum America. Baltimore's port economy had helped give the city the nation's largest free Negro population, a…
The Myth of Race: The Troubling and Persistence of an Unscientific Idea . By Robert Wald Sussman
With The Myth of Race, Robert Sussman gives us a comprehensive history of the idea of race and particularly the rise and not total fall of scientific racism Drawing on the intellectual history of his own discipline, physical anthropology, Sussman takes the reader on a journey from the role of race in the religious persecutions of the fifteenth century Spanish inquisition to an examination of the development of the eugenics movement, that movement…
Pigmentocracies: Ethnicity, Race, and Color in Latin America
The discussion on race in Latin America has frequently taken on the character of the apocryphal blind travelers and their attempts to describe the elephant. Different students of the subject have asserted the primacy of ethnicity, language, color, or racial self-identification to an understanding of the often-elusive concept called race and its importance in the Latin American social structure. All these perspectives have captured important aspec…
The Long, Lingering Shadow: Slavery, Race, and Law in the American Hemisphere
Surprise Heirs I: Illegitimacy, Patrimonial Rights and Legal Nationalism in Luso-Brazilian Inheritance, 1750–1821 and Surprise Heirs II: Illegitimacy Inheritance Rights and Public Power in the Formati…
Journal Article Surprise Heirs I: Illegitimacy, Patrimonial Rights and Legal Nationalism in Luso-Brazilian Inheritance, 1750–1821 and Surprise Heirs II: Illegitimacy Inheritance Rights and Public Power in the Formation of Imperial Brazil, 1822–1889 Get access Lewin Linda. Surprise Heirs I: Illegitimacy, Patrimonial Rights and Legal Nationalism in Luso-Brazilian Inheritance, 1750–1821. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003. xxix, 204 pp. $60.0…
Beyond Invisibility: Afro-Argentines in Their Nation's Culture and Memory
This essay examines recent works on the history and culture of Afro-Argentines. It discusses why the study of Afro-Argentines has traditionally been an underexamined topic by scholars specializing in Argentina and why there has been a recent renewal of interest in the topic. Essay explores influence of Africans and Afro-Argentines on Argentine culture and the question of the so-called disappearance of the Afro-Argentines
Brown v. Board of Education: Caste, Culture, and the Constitution
From the Grassroots to the Supreme Court: Brown v. Board of Education and American Democracy
Journal Article From the Grassroots to the Supreme Court: Brown v. Board of Education and American Democracy Get access From the Grassroots to the Supreme Court: Brown v. Board of Education and American Democracy. Ed. by Lau Peter F.. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2004. x, 406 pp. Cloth, $94.95, isbn0-8223-3475-5. Paper, $25.95, isbn0-8223-3449-6.) Robert J. Cottrol Robert J. Cottrol George Washington UniversityWashington, D.C. Search for other…
From Emancipation to Equality: The Afro-Latin's Unfinished Struggle
Afro-Latin America, 1800–2000. By George Reid Andrews. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. 320 pages. $49.95 (cloth). $19.95 (paper). The expansion of interest in Afro-American1 history in recent decades has reshaped our understanding of U.S. history, forcing a confrontation with the paradox of racial subordination in a nation that took special pride in freedom and egalitarianism. Still, despite its importance, the history of Afro-Americans …
Freedmen, the Fourteenth Amendment, and the Right to Bear Arms, 1866-1876
Preface The Civil Rights and Freedmen's Bureau Acts and the Proposal of the Fourteenth Amendment Congress Reacts to Southern Rejection of the Fourteenth Amendment The Southern State Constitutional Conventions The Freedmen's Bureau Act Reenacted and the Fourteenth Amendment Ratified Toward Adoption of the Civil Rights Act of 1871 From the Klan Trials and Hearings through the End of the Civil Rights Revolution The Cruikshank Case, from Trial to the…
From African to Yankee: Narratives of Slavery and Freedom in Antebellum New England
The Bondsman's Burden: An Economic Analysis of the Common Law of Southern Slavery
Clashing traditions: Civil law and common law and the American culture of slave governance
Southern Slavery and the Law, 1619–1860. Thomas D. Morris. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 1996. x, 575pp. $49.95. ISBN 0–8078–2238–8. Slavery, the Civil Law, and the Supreme Court of Louisiana. Judith Kelleher Schafer. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. 1994. xix, 389pp. $32.95. ISBN: 0–8071–1845–1
The Price of Freedom: Slavery and Manumission in Baltimore and Early National Maryland
Journal Article The Price of Freedom: Slavery and Manumission in Baltimore and Early National Maryland. By T. Stephen Whitman. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1997. xiv, 238 pp. $35.95, ISBN 0-8131-2004-7) Get access Robert J. Cottrol Robert J. Cottrol George Washington University, Washington, D.C Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 1, June 1998, Pages 22…
Gun Control and the Constitution: Sources and Explorations on the Second Amendment
Journal Article Gun Control and the Constitution: Sources and Explorations on the Second Amendment Get access Cottrol Robert J., ed. Gun Control and the Constitution: Sources and Explorations on the Second Amendment, 3 vols. New York: Garland Publishing Co., 1993. xlviii, 298 pp. $57.00; 380 pp. $62.00; and 320 pp. $54.00. Robert J. Cottrol, ed. Gun Control and the Constitution: Sources and Explorations on the Second Amendment (paperback) New Yor…
The Virginia Supreme Court, Blacks and the Laws, 1870-1902
Journal Article The Virginia Supreme Court, Blacks and the Laws, 1870–1902 Get access Pincus Samuel N., The Virginia Supreme Court, Blacks and the Laws, 1870–1902New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1990. xxix, 269 pp. $66.00. Robert J. Cottrol Robert J. Cottrol Rutgers School of Law (Camden) Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 37, Issue 3, July 1993, Pages 388–390, htt…
The Fourteenth Amendment: From Political Principle to Judicial Doctrine
Journal Article The Fourteenth Amendment: From Political Principle to Judicial Doctrine. By William E. Nelson. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1988. xiv + 253 pp. $25.00.) Get access Robert J. Cottrol Robert J. Cottrol Boston College Law School Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 4, March 1990, Pages 1277–1278, https://doi.org/10.2307/2936650 Published: 01 Ma…
Zechariah Chafee, Jr: Defender of Liberty and Law
The Historical Definition of Race Law
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Liberalism and Paternalism: Ideology, Economic Interest and the Business Law of Slavery
Journal Article Liberalism and Paternalism: Ideology, Economic Interest and the Business Law of Slavery Get access Robert J. Cottrol Robert J. Cottrol Associate Professor *Boston College Law School. I would like to thank the following for providing helpful comments on earlier drafts of this essay: Denis J. Brion, Charles Donahue, Jr., Phyllis Goldfarb, Thomas C. Kohler, Judith A. McMorrow and Zygmunt J.B. Plater. An earlier version of this essay …
Black Frontiersmen: A South American Case
Beyond Invisibility: Afro-Argentines in Their Nation's Culture and Memory
This essay examines recent works on the history and culture of Afro-Argentines. It discusses why the study of Afro-Argentines has traditionally been an underexamined topic by scholars specializing in Argentina and why there has been a recent renewal of interest in the topic. Essay explores influence of Africans and Afro-Argentines on Argentine culture and the question of the so-called disappearance of the Afro-Argentines
The Afro-Yankees: Providence's Black Community in the Antebellum Era
Journal Article The Afro-Yankees: Providence's Black Community in the Antebellum Era. By Robert J. Cottrol. (Westport: GreenMrood, 1982. xviii + 200 pp. Charts, tables, notes, essay on selected sources, selected bibliography, and index. $27.50.) Get access Irving H. Bartlett Irving H. Bartlett University of Massachusetts, Boston Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 70, Issue …
Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America
Martha S. Jones's Birthright Citizens skillfully blends legal and social history to tell the story of the antebellum free-black struggle for citizenship. Covering an era when formal law had become committed to white supremacy and race-based citizenship, Birthright Citizens focuses on Baltimore as a lens through which to view race in antebellum America. Baltimore's port economy had helped give the city the nation's largest free Negro population, a…
Pigmentocracies: Ethnicity, Race, and Color in Latin America
The discussion on race in Latin America has frequently taken on the character of the apocryphal blind travelers and their attempts to describe the elephant. Different students of the subject have asserted the primacy of ethnicity, language, color, or racial self-identification to an understanding of the often-elusive concept called race and its importance in the Latin American social structure. All these perspectives have captured important aspec…
Liberalism and Paternalism: Ideology, Economic Interest and the Business Law of Slavery
Journal Article Liberalism and Paternalism: Ideology, Economic Interest and the Business Law of Slavery Get access Robert J. Cottrol Robert J. Cottrol Associate Professor *Boston College Law School. I would like to thank the following for providing helpful comments on earlier drafts of this essay: Denis J. Brion, Charles Donahue, Jr., Phyllis Goldfarb, Thomas C. Kohler, Judith A. McMorrow and Zygmunt J.B. Plater. An earlier version of this essay …
The Black Church in America
Black Sects and Cults: The Power Axis in an Ethnic Ethic
The Black Muslims in America
Journal Article The Black Muslims in America, by C. Eric Lincoln. Boston: Beacon, 1973 (rev. ed.) 302 pp. $2.95 Get access Robert J. Cottrol Robert J. Cottrol Yale University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 35, Issue 2, Summer 1974, Pages 147–149, https://doi.org/10.2307/3709751 Published: 01 July 1974
The Negro Church in America
Black Frontiersmen: A South American Case
Comparative Slave Studies: Urban Slavery as a Model, Travelers' Accounts as a Source—Bibliographic Essay
Modernization: The Transformation of American Life, 1600-1865
Heroism and the Origins of Afro-American History
Black Leaders in Conflict: Joseph H. Jackson, Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, Adam Clayton Powell, Jr
Myne Owne Ground: Race and Freedom on Virginia's Eastern Shore, 1640-1676
The Afro-Yankees: Providence's Black Community in the Antebellum Era
The Afro-Yankees: Providence's Black Community in the Antebellum Era
Journal Article The Afro-Yankees: Providence's Black Community in the Antebellum Era. By Robert J. Cottrol. (Westport: GreenMrood, 1982. xviii + 200 pp. Charts, tables, notes, essay on selected sources, selected bibliography, and index. $27.50.) Get access Irving H. Bartlett Irving H. Bartlett University of Massachusetts, Boston Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 70, Issue …
Liberalism and Paternalism: Ideology, Economic Interest and the Business Law of Slavery
Journal Article Liberalism and Paternalism: Ideology, Economic Interest and the Business Law of Slavery Get access Robert J. Cottrol Robert J. Cottrol Associate Professor *Boston College Law School. I would like to thank the following for providing helpful comments on earlier drafts of this essay: Denis J. Brion, Charles Donahue, Jr., Phyllis Goldfarb, Thomas C. Kohler, Judith A. McMorrow and Zygmunt J.B. Plater. An earlier version of this essay …
Zechariah Chafee, Jr: Defender of Liberty and Law
The Historical Definition of Race Law
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Fourteenth Amendment: From Political Principle to Judicial Doctrine
Journal Article The Fourteenth Amendment: From Political Principle to Judicial Doctrine. By William E. Nelson. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1988. xiv + 253 pp. $25.00.) Get access Robert J. Cottrol Robert J. Cottrol Boston College Law School Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 4, March 1990, Pages 1277–1278, https://doi.org/10.2307/2936650 Published: 01 Ma…
The Virginia Supreme Court, Blacks and the Laws, 1870-1902
Journal Article The Virginia Supreme Court, Blacks and the Laws, 1870–1902 Get access Pincus Samuel N., The Virginia Supreme Court, Blacks and the Laws, 1870–1902New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1990. xxix, 269 pp. $66.00. Robert J. Cottrol Robert J. Cottrol Rutgers School of Law (Camden) Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 37, Issue 3, July 1993, Pages 388–390, htt…
Gun Control and the Constitution: Sources and Explorations on the Second Amendment
Journal Article Gun Control and the Constitution: Sources and Explorations on the Second Amendment Get access Cottrol Robert J., ed. Gun Control and the Constitution: Sources and Explorations on the Second Amendment, 3 vols. New York: Garland Publishing Co., 1993. xlviii, 298 pp. $57.00; 380 pp. $62.00; and 320 pp. $54.00. Robert J. Cottrol, ed. Gun Control and the Constitution: Sources and Explorations on the Second Amendment (paperback) New Yor…
Clashing traditions: Civil law and common law and the American culture of slave governance
Southern Slavery and the Law, 1619–1860. Thomas D. Morris. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 1996. x, 575pp. $49.95. ISBN 0–8078–2238–8. Slavery, the Civil Law, and the Supreme Court of Louisiana. Judith Kelleher Schafer. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. 1994. xix, 389pp. $32.95. ISBN: 0–8071–1845–1
The Price of Freedom: Slavery and Manumission in Baltimore and Early National Maryland
Journal Article The Price of Freedom: Slavery and Manumission in Baltimore and Early National Maryland. By T. Stephen Whitman. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1997. xiv, 238 pp. $35.95, ISBN 0-8131-2004-7) Get access Robert J. Cottrol Robert J. Cottrol George Washington University, Washington, D.C Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 1, June 1998, Pages 22…
From African to Yankee: Narratives of Slavery and Freedom in Antebellum New England
The Bondsman's Burden: An Economic Analysis of the Common Law of Southern Slavery
Freedmen, the Fourteenth Amendment, and the Right to Bear Arms, 1866-1876
Preface The Civil Rights and Freedmen's Bureau Acts and the Proposal of the Fourteenth Amendment Congress Reacts to Southern Rejection of the Fourteenth Amendment The Southern State Constitutional Conventions The Freedmen's Bureau Act Reenacted and the Fourteenth Amendment Ratified Toward Adoption of the Civil Rights Act of 1871 From the Klan Trials and Hearings through the End of the Civil Rights Revolution The Cruikshank Case, from Trial to the…
From Emancipation to Equality: The Afro-Latin's Unfinished Struggle
Afro-Latin America, 1800–2000. By George Reid Andrews. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. 320 pages. $49.95 (cloth). $19.95 (paper). The expansion of interest in Afro-American1 history in recent decades has reshaped our understanding of U.S. history, forcing a confrontation with the paradox of racial subordination in a nation that took special pride in freedom and egalitarianism. Still, despite its importance, the history of Afro-Americans …
Brown v. Board of Education: Caste, Culture, and the Constitution
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