Black Litigants in the Antebellum American South
Dados Bibliográficos
| ID | 20003799 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Kimberly Welch (autor correspondente), Kimberly M Welch |
| Ano | 2018 |
| Páginas | 306 |
| Data de publicação | 2018-02-05 |
| Open Access | Não |
| Tipo | BOOK |
| Periódico | Black litigants in the antebellum American South (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Editora | University of North Carolina Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469636436.001.0001 |
| Wikidata | Q99194858 |
| OpenAlex | W2892600853 |
| Open Library | OL26974674M |
| ISBN | 9781469636436 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citações recebidas | 36 |
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 wages, and claim damages for assault. They sued in conflicts over property and personal status. And they often won. Based on new research conducted in courthouse basements and storage sheds in rural Mississippi and Louisiana, Kimberly Welch draws on over 1,000 examples of free and enslaved black litigants who used the courts to protect their interests and reconfigure their place in a tense society. To understand their success, Welch argues that we must understand the language that they used—the language of property, in particular—to make their claims recognizable and persuasive to others and to link their status as owner to the ideal of a free, autonomous citizen. In telling their stories, Welch reveals a previously unknown world of black legal activity, one that is consequential for understanding the long history of race, rights, and civic inclusion in America
Civil rights · Damages · Ideal (ethics) · Personal property · Political science · Property (philosophy) · Race (biology) · Sociology · White (mutation) · American History and Culture · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Gender Studies · Law · Race, History, and American Society · 19th century · Actions and defenses · African americans · History · Jugendkriminalität · Jugendstrafanstalt · Jugendstrafvollzug · Kind · Kriminalisierung · Louisiana · mississippi · Schwarze · Sklaverei · Social conditions · to 1863 · Zivilprozess
Social Activism through Court Action
Free Black Witnesses in the Antebellum Upper South
Old Age and American Slavery
Juana Ramírez, Eighteenth-Century Oaxaca, New Spain (Mexico)
Maria Firmina dos Reis, Nineteenth-Century Maranhão (Brazil)
Carrie Williams Clifford, Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Ohio (US)
Elizabeth Key, Seventeenth-Century Virginia (US)
Emma Lane Coger, Nineteenth-Century Illinois, Iowa, and Missouri (US)
Minerva, Nineteenth-Century Téjas and Louisiana (US), and Mexico
Gabriela, Nineteenth-Century Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil)
Cécile Fatiman and Petra Carabalí, Late Eighteenth-Century Haiti and Mid-Nineteenth-Century Cuba
Paula de Eguiluz, Seventeenth-Century Puerto Rico, Cuba, and New Granada (Colombia)
María Hipólita Lozano, Eighteenth-Century Lima (Peru)
Juana María Álvarez, Eighteenth-Century New Granada (Colombia)
Anna Maria Lopes de Brito, Eighteenth-Century Minas Gerais (Brazil)
Margarita de Sossa, Sixteenth-Century Puebla de los Ángeles, New Spain (Mexico)
Marion, Eighteenth-Century Natchitoches, Louisiana (US)
Judith and Hannah
María Remedios del Valle, Nineteenth-Century Argentina
Sarah Chauqum, Eighteenth-Century Rhode Island and Connecticut (US)
Hannah Manena McKenney, Late Seventeenth- and Early Eighteenth-Century Bermuda and New Providence (Bahamas)
Reytory Angola, Seventeenth-Century Manhattan (US)
As If She Were Free
Laura E. Davis Titus, Nineteenth-Century Norfolk, Virginia (US)
The Fourteenth Amendment and the Transformation of Civil Rights
From the “Legal Culture of Slavery” to Black Legal Culture
Slave voices and experiences in the later medieval Europe
Reframing Black Southerners’ Experiences in the Courts, 1865–1950
Unlawful Intimacy”
Response to Rebecca Scott's “Discerning a Dignitary Offense”
Back into the Days of Slavery”
The Reasonable (Wo)man”
William Johnson's Hypothesis
The Political Economy of Punishment
Judges and Jews
Dehumanizing Slave Personhood
| Obras citantes distintas | 36 |
|---|---|
| Citações por ano | 4,5 |
| Intervalo de citações | 2018 - 2023 (6) |
| Velocidade de citação | historical |
| Altamente citado | Não |
| Tipos de citação | Neutras: 34 |