Trading Encounters between Non-Elite Whites and African Americans in Savannah, 1790-1860
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10231992 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Timothy James Lockley (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 66 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 25 |
| Publication date | 2000-02-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Southern History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-4642 • E-ISSN: 2325-6893 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2587436 |
| OpenAlex | W1540599278 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
BETWEEN 1790, WHEN CIVIC GOVERNMENT WAS FIRST INSTITUTED IN Savannah, Georgia, and 1848, when records of fines ceased to be noted in the council minutes, the city council, acting as the mayor's court, handed down more than fifteen hundred fines to nearly nine hundred individuals convicted of violating the trading ordinances.' The offenses included retailing liquor without a license, keeping a shop open after official hours, trading with slaves, and, after 1829, violating the prohibition on Sunday trading.2 The citizens summoned before the mayor's court did not reflect the racial, class, and gender makeup of the city as a whole. Offenders were generally lower-class white males. This article seeks to explain why non-elite whites repeatedly violated
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| Citations per year | 0.43 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2005 - 2022 (18) |
| Highly cited | No |