Nothing More Than Freedom: The Failure of Abolition in American Law

ISBN-13: 9781009219198 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 280 str.

Santa Barbara) Perrone Giuliana (University of California

Opis

Reveals that slavery has remained embedded in private law well after its ostensible demise.

Recenzje

'Perrone delivers an unflinching look at how American judges perpetuated the vestiges of slavery through state-based private law, fatally undermining the abolitionist promise of the Reconstruction Amendments. Now, when so many are entranced by the fiction of colorblindness, Perrone's excavation of ongoing slavery-based logics in American law and commerce is a welcome counterpoint.' Dylan C. Penningroth, author of The Claims of Kinfolk: African American Property and Community in the Nineteenth-Century South

Spis treści

Introduction: an abolitionist vision; 1. The contract controversy; 2. 'Wreck and ruin'; 3. 'By force it was destroyed'; 4. Confederate reckonings; 5. Life after the death of slavery; 6. 'Back into the days of slavery'; 7. 'The grave question'; 8. Final failure; Epilogue: an abolitionist revision.