Resetting the Legal History of Slavery
Divination, Torture, Poisoning, Murder, Revolution, Emancipation, and Re-enslavement
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11807149 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Walter Johnson (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 1089-1095 |
| Publication date | 2011-10-20 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Law and History Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0738-2480 • E-ISSN: 1939-9022 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s073824801100054x |
| OpenAlex | W2323887364 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 4 |
Each of these four lapidary papers scratches a stylus across fixed categories and settled understandings: embedding the legal history of the Americas in the African history of crime and punishment; uncovering the intellectual history of the metropole in the social history of the colonies; using the restless contingency of biography to trouble the most durable of historiographical boundaries, that between slavery and freedom. Taken together, they dismantle and then suggestively refit the history of slavery and law in the time of revolution and emancipation
Criminology · Emancipation · Historiography · Human rights · Legal history · Political science · Politics · Punishment (psychology · Social history (medicine · Sociology · Torture · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · History · Law · Race, History, and American Society
| Citations per year | 0.1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2016 - 2016 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |