Paul Finkelman

Datos Biográficos

ID971341
NOMBREPaul Finkelman
NOMBRESPaul
APELLIDOFinkelman
FIRMAFINKELMAN P
AFILIACIONESBinghamton University
VERIFICADONo
TOTAL DE OBRAS98
TOTAL DE CITAS68
TOTAL COMO AUTOR95
TOTAL COMO EDITOR3
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1977
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2024
ÍNDICE H3

  • The Tragedy of Felix Frankfurter

    Open AccessPaul FinkelmanARTICLEColumbia Journal of Race and Law2024

    This article reconsiders the life and record of Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter. Frankfurter was smart, hardworking, and talented, serving as a great activist lawyer and important law professor in his early career. When nominated to the court, there were high hopes he would follow Holmes and Brandeis in leading a progressive Court that would protect civil liberties and minority rights. However, it was not to be. On the Court Frankfurter b…

  • Williams' Gang

    Open AccessPaul FinkelmanARTICLEJournal of American History2021

    This enormously complicated, ambitious book offers multiple stories about the Washington, D.C., slave trader, William H. Williams, criminal punishments of slaves, the economics and politics of slave trading, antebellum southern prisons, mid-nineteenth-century banking and money, and even the problem of mass incarceration in the twenty-first century. The book revolves around Williams's purchase of slave convicts from Virginia whose capital punishme…

  • Slave Trade and Migration

    Paul FinkelmanBOOKSlave Trade and Migration2019

  • Southern Politics and Attempts to Reopen The African Slave Trade

    Paul FinkelmanCHAPTERSlave Trade and Migration2019

    The South Carolina legislator also effectively undermined the argument that reopening of the trade, with the consequent slave-price decline, would secure the peculiar institution by enabling the nonslaveholder to share in the fruits of the system. The Southern Commercial Conventions from 1855 to 1859 were the main field of battle for the slave-trade forces. At the Montgomery Southern Commercial Convention of 1858 further contention arose. Leonida…

  • The Fishers of Men

    Paul FinkelmanCHAPTERSlave Trade and Migration2019

    This chapter examines nature of the system of property rights in Africa, similar to the organizations of a contemporary high seas fishery, probably caused much of those profits to be dissipated or wasted. The fishers of men were almost always African and the exporters usually were African. The African end of the slave trade, it must be pointed out, was particularly complicated, with traditions, institutions and conditions often varying substantia…

  • The Journal of Negro History

    Paul FinkelmanCHAPTERSlave Trade and Migration2019

    The reign of Queen Elizabeth, 1558–1603, is noted for maritime enterprise. The sea voyages of this reign have a varied significance, a part of which was the entrance of England upon the African slave trade to America and the subsequent beginning of the history of English America. In 1442, Gonsalvez, a Portugese sailor in the service of Prince Henry, the navigator, after skirting along the northwestern coast of Africa, brought to Lisbon with him t…

  • Measuring The Atlantic Slave Trade

    Paul FinkelmanCHAPTERSlave Trade and Migration2019

    On French-carried slave exports, Philip D. Curtin refers to Captain George Hamilton’s ‘miraculous breadth of knowledge and J. E. Inikori’s trust in it’. It describes the extent of trade carried on by the slave trading firm of which Captain George Hamilton was the resident ‘general manager’. Apart from the stationed ships the firm employed a large number of small vessels in collecting slaves from large parts of the African coast. For the whole per…

  • The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography

    Paul FinkelmanCHAPTERSlave Trade and Migration2019

    The members of Philadelphia’s black community hardly needed to be alerted to the risk of enslavement. Philadelphians considered themselves particularly at risk in view of the city’s proximity to the slave state of Delaware. Outside Philadelphia’s black community, only the members of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society displayed real concern over the issue of kidnapping. In the late spring and summer of 1825 the Philadelphia authorities began to re…

  • Slave Trade and Migration

    Paul FinkelmanBOOKSlave Trade and Migration2019

  • The Captive's Quest for Freedom

    Open AccessPaul FinkelmanARTICLEJournal of American History2019

    This remarkable book exemplifies the best work of a skilled, hard-working, and indefatigable historian who spent decades hunting down facts and stories, thinking them through, and weaving them into a powerful narrative. There are five major pieces to this book. First, R. J. M. Blackett gives an illuminating and useful history and analysis of the debates that created the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law. He mostly ignores the pre-1850 history and the debat…

  • Supreme Injustice

    Paul FinkelmanBOOKSupreme Injustice2018

    In ruling after ruling, the three most important pre–Civil War justices—Marshall, Taney, and Story—upheld slavery. Paul Finkelman establishes an authoritative account of each justice's proslavery position, the reasoning behind his opposition to black freedom, and the personal incentives that embedded racism ever deeper in American civic life.

  • Gender and the Jubilee

    Paul Finkelman, Sharon Elizabeth Romeo et al.BOOKGender and the Jubilee2016

  • The Complete Bill of Rights

    Paul FinkelmanARTICLEJournal of American History2016

    This second edition of Neil H. Cogan's massive compendium of the primary sources surrounding the adoption of the Bill of Rights contains new sections on the habeas corpus provision of article 1 and the privileges and immunities clause of article 4 of the original Constitution and new material from legal treatises and legal dictionaries available in the 1780s. The result is an even more useful book that is twice as long as the first edition. Organ…

  • Tyrannicide

    Emily Blanck, Paul Finkelman et al.BOOKTyrannicide2014

  • Congress and the Crisis of the 1850s

    Paul Finkelman, Donald R KennonBOOKCongress and the crisis of the…2012

  • Slavery

    Seymour Drescher, Paul FinkelmanBOOKThe Oxford Handbook Of The…2012

  • Slavery in the United States

    Paul FinkelmanCHAPTERThe Legal Understanding Of…2012

    This chapter studies slavery in the United States, specifically how the Supreme Court and the U.S. Constitution defined and understood it. It first shows how slavery was protected by law due to the efforts of the framers of the 1787 Constitutional Convention. It then explains how the Supreme Court came to define slavery through its legal system. This chapter also demonstrates the way the legal system balanced the dual status of slaves as ‘people’…

  • Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance

    Cary D Wintz, Paul FinkelmanBOOKEncyclopedia of the Harlem…2012

    From the music of Louis Armstrong to the portraits by Beauford Delaney, the writings of Langston Hughes to the debut of the musical Show Boat, the Harlem Renaissance is one of the most significant developments in African-American history in the twentieth century. The Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance, in two-volumes and over 635 entries, is the first comprehensive compilation of information on all aspects of this creative, dynamic period.For…

  • United States Slave Law

    Paul Finkelman, Mark M Smith et al.BOOKOxford Handbook of Slavery in the…2012

    This article discusses the historiography of slave law in the United States. Slave law in the United States developed over 225 years through a complicated mixture of custom, statutes, and court decisions. Before the American Revolution of 1776 England never micromanaged the colonies or promulgated a colonial slave code. Each of the thirteen colonies that became the United States had its own legislatures and court structures, and thus each colony …

  • In the Shadow of Freedom

    Open AccessPaul Finkelman, Donald R KennonBOOKIn the shadow of freedom2011

    Few images of early America were more striking, and jarring, than that of slaves in the capital city of the world's most important free republic. Black slaves served and sustained the legislators, bureaucrats, jurists, cabinet officials, military leaders, and even the presidents who lived and worked there. While slaves quietly kept the nation's capital running smoothly, lawmakers debated the place of slavery in the nation, the status of slavery i…

  • Slavery, the Constitution, and the Origins of the Civil War

    Paul FinkelmanARTICLEOAH Magazine of History2011Citada por: 1

    On December 20, 1860, the delegates to the South Carolina secession convention voted to leave the Union. In the declaration explaining the causes of their momentous decision, they charged that “an increasing hostility on the part of the non-slaveholding States to the institution of slavery has led to a disregard of their obligations, and the laws of the General Government have ceased to effect the objects of the Constitution.” “Thus,” they conclu…

  • Encyclopedia of United States Indian Policy and Law

    Paul Finkelman, Tim GarrisonBOOKEncyclopedia of United States…2009

  • Encyclopedia of African American History 1896 to the Present

    Paul FinkelmanBOOKEncyclopedia of African American…2009

    This remarkable work traces the transition from the Reconstruction Era to the age of Jim Crow, the Harlem Renaissance, the Civil Rights Movement, and the ascendant influence of African Americans on the American cultural landscape. With coverage up to and including the 2008 election of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States, the Encyclopedia contains approximately 1,200 fully cross-referenced entries all signed by leading scholars…

  • Defending Slavery

    Paul Finkelman

  • Lynching, racial violence, and law

    Paul Finkelman