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Jenny Bourne Wahl

The Bondsman's Burden: An Economic Analysis of the Common Law of Southern Slavery

The Bondsman's Burden: An Economic Analysis of the Common Law of Southern Slavery

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Were slaves property or human beings under the law? Antebellum Southern judges designed efficient laws that protected property rights and helped slavery remain economically viable, laws that sheltered the persons embodied by that propertySH-the slaves themselves. Unintentionally, these judges generated rules applicable to ordinary Americans. Wahl provides a rigorous, compelling economic analysis of the common law of Southern slavery, inspecting thousands of legal disputes.

Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Wahl, Jenny Bourne
Published: 08/22/2002
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521521383
Pages: 292
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.54h x 6.66w x 0.77d
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