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Slavery on trial : race, class, and criminal justice in Antebellum Richmond, Virginia / James M. Campbell.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: New perspectives on the history of the SouthPublication details: Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida, c2007.Description: xiii, 264 p. : ill., map ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780813030913 (alk. paper)
  • 0813030919 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 364.9755/45109034
LOC classification:
  • HV 9955 C188s 2007
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Contents:
Abandoned to causes of corruption : slave life and policing in the city -- "An evil which demands a speedy remedy" : white criminality in an urban slave society -- "The victim of prejudice and hasty consideration" : slave trials, clemency, and punishment -- "With these poor rogues their judge had never dined" : honor, law, and the trial and punishment of white criminals -- The "stigma, of the deepest degradation, was fixed upon the whole race" : free African Americans and the criminal justice system.
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Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Ciencias Sociales Ciencias Sociales (3er. Piso) HV 9955 C188s 2007 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 1 Available 00000062912

Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-254) and index.

Abandoned to causes of corruption : slave life and policing in the city -- "An evil which demands a speedy remedy" : white criminality in an urban slave society -- "The victim of prejudice and hasty consideration" : slave trials, clemency, and punishment -- "With these poor rogues their judge had never dined" : honor, law, and the trial and punishment of white criminals -- The "stigma, of the deepest degradation, was fixed upon the whole race" : free African Americans and the criminal justice system.

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