Status without Rights
African Americans and the Tangled History of Law and Governance in the Nineteenth-Century U.S. South
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7399062 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Laura F Edwards (0009-0005-8721-5286, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 112 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 365-393 |
| Publication date | 2007-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The American Historical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-8762 • E-ISSN: 1937-5239 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1086/ahr.112.2.365 |
| OpenAlex | W2110136228 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
DURING THE CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION, black southerners regularly made claims through formal legal channels. The documentary record—which is voluminous at the federal, state, and local levels—has inspired a new generation of scholarship that explores how former slaves used the legal system to express and pursue their goals as free people.1 Generally, historians place African Americans’ actions
Civil rights · Corporate governance · Legal history · Local governance · Local government · Management · Political science · Scholarship · Sociology · Spanish Civil War · State (computer science · State law · American Constitutional Law and Politics · American History and Culture · History · Law · Race, History, and American Society
"Her Claim for Pension Is Lawful and Just"
Between Empires
Taking former masters to court
I Told Him to Let Me Alone, That He Hurt Me”
Slave women, county courts and the law in the United States South
Affective Debts
William Johnson's Hypothesis
Giants of Civil Rights
Tenancy and African American Marriage in the Postbellum South
Capitalism's Captives
Freedom By A Judgment”
From Documents to Data Points
| Unique citing works | 12 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,71 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2025 (17) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 12 |