African Americans in Slavery

• Published in: A Companion to American Legal History pp. 152 - 170
• Main Author: Davis, Thomas J
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford, UK Wiley‐Blackwell 15.03.2013
• Subjects: African Americans in slavery; African Americans in slavery, diversity/individuality; American legal system, and American Negro slavery; capture through acculturation; institutionalists, and the first slavery statutes; lived experience and law; nascent capitalism, slavery in the Americas; slave law and rationalization, interplay of cultural; slavery, institution and lived experience; The Atlantic slave trade, laws exploiting blacks

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