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  • What Blood Won’t Tell

    A History of Race on Trial in America

    by Ariela J. Gross ...
    Is race something we know when we see it? In 1857, Alexina Morrison, a slave in Louisiana, ran away from her master and surrendered herself to the parish jail for protection. Blue-eyed and blond, Morrison successfully convinced white society that she was one of them. When she sued for her freedom, witnesses assured the jury that she was white, and that they would have known if she had a drop of ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Double Character

    Slavery and Mastery in the Antebellum Southern Courtroom

    by Ariela J. Gross ...
    In a groundbreaking study of the day-to-day law and culture of slavery, Ariela Gross investigates the local courtrooms of the Deep South where ordinary people settled their disputes over slaves. Buyers sued sellers for breach of warranty when they considered slaves to be physically or morally defective; owners sued supervisors who whipped or neglected slaves under their care. Double Character ... Read more

    $140.99 CAD

  • Local Matters

    Race, Crime, and Justice in the Nineteenth-Century South

    by Ariela J. Gross, Judith Schafer, Laura F. Edwards, Lou Falkner Williams, Michael W. Fitzgerald, Sally E. Hadden, Timothy S. Huebner ...
    Series series
    Much of the current reassessment of race, culture, and criminal justice in the nineteenth-century South has been based on intensive community studies. Drawing on previously untapped sources, the nine original papers collected here represent some of the best new work on how racial justice can be shaped by the particulars of time and place.Although each essay is anchored in the local, several ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • Becoming Free, Becoming Black

    Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana

    by Alejandro de la Fuente, Ariela J. Gross ...
    Series series Studies in Legal History
    How did Africans become 'blacks' in the Americas? Becoming Free, Becoming Black tells the story of enslaved and free people of color who used the law to claim freedom and citizenship for themselves and their loved ones. Their communities challenged slaveholders' efforts to make blackness synonymous with slavery. Looking closely at three slave societies - Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana - Alejandro ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Slavery & the Law

    by Derrick Bell, Jonathan A. Bush, Jacob I. Corré, Michael Kent Curtis, William W. Fisher III, James Oliver Horton, Lois Horton, Thomas D. Morris, Thomas D. Russell, Judith Kelleher Schafer, Alan Watson, Ariela Gross, Sanford Levinson ...
    Central to the development of the American legal system, writes Professor Finkelman in Slavery & the Law, is the institution of slavery. It informs us not only about early concepts of race and property, but about the nature of American democracy itself.Prominent historians of slavery and legal scholars analyze the intricate relationship between slavery, race, and the law from the earliest Black ... Read more

    $168.99 CAD

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    Becoming Free, Becoming Black

    Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana

    by Alejandro de la Fuente, Ariela J. Gross ...
    Narrated by Gary Tiedemann ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 52 min

    How did Africans become "blacks" in the Americas? Becoming Free, Becoming Black tells the story of enslaved and free people of color who used the law to claim freedom and citizenship for themselves and their loved ones. Their communities challenged slaveholders' efforts to make blackness synonymous with slavery. Looking closely at three slave societies—Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana—Alejandro de la ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Birthright Citizens

    A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America

    by Martha S. Jones ...
    Series series Studies in Legal History
    Before the Civil War, colonization schemes and black laws threatened to deport former slaves born in the United States. Birthright Citizens recovers the story of how African American activists remade national belonging through battles in legislatures, conventions, and courthouses. They faced formidable opposition, most notoriously from the US Supreme Court decision in Dred Scott. Still, Martha S. ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

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  • Masterless Men

    Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South

    by Keri Leigh Merritt ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies on the American South
    Analyzing land policy, labor, and legal history, Keri Leigh Merritt reveals what happens to excess workers when a capitalist system is predicated on slave labor. With the rising global demand for cotton - and thus, slaves - in the 1840s and 1850s, the need for white laborers in the American South was drastically reduced, creating a large underclass who were unemployed or underemployed. These poor ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Abraham Lincoln, Esq.

    The Legal Career of America's Greatest President

    by Roger Billings, Frank J. Williams ...
    Lincoln scholars explore the president's law career in this informative volume, examining his legal writings on matters from ethics to the Constitution.As our nation's most beloved and recognizable president, Abraham Lincoln is best known for the Emancipation Proclamation and for guiding our country through the Civil War. But before he took the oath of office, Lincoln practiced law for nearly ... Read more

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  • Lincoln

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Allen C. Guelzo ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Beneath the surface of the apparently untutored and deceptively frank Abraham Lincoln ran private tunnels of self-taught study, a restless philosophical curiosity, and a profound grasp of the fundamentals of democracy. Now, in Lincoln: A Very Short Introduction, the award-winning Lincoln authority Allen C. Guelzo offers a penetrating look into the mind of one of our greatest presidents. If Lincoln ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

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  • The Founding Fathers

    A Very Short Introduction

    by R. B. Bernstein ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The Founding Fathers is a concise, accessible overview of the brilliant, flawed, and quarrelsome group of lawyers, politicians, merchants, military men, and clergy known as "the Founding Fathers"--who got as close to the ideal of the Platonic "philosopher-kings" as American or world history has ever seen. R. B. Bernstein reveals Washington, Franklin, Jefferson, Adams, Hamilton, and the other ... Read more

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  • The Ruling Race

    by James Oakes ...
    This pathbreaking social history of the slaveholding South marks a turn in our understanding of antebellum America and the coming of the Civil War. Oakes's bracing analysis breaks the myth that slaveholders were a paternalistic aristocracy dedicated to the values of honor, race, and section. Instead they emerge as having much in common with their entrepreneurial counterparts in the North: they ... Read more

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