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Black litigants in the antebellum American South
- Title
- Black litigants in the antebellum American South / Kimberly M. Welch.
- Author
- Welch, Kimberly M.
- Publication
- Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2018]
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Details
- Description
- xiv, 306 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm.
- Summary
- "This work explores free and enslaved African Americans' involvement in a broad range of civil actions in the Natchez district of Mississippi and Louisiana between 1800 and 1860. Though the antebellum southern courts have long been understood as institutions supporting the class interests and the racial ideologies of the planter and merchant elite, Kimberly Welch shows how black litigants found ways to advocate for themselves even within a racist system. To understand their success, Welch argues that we must understand the language that they used--the language of property, in particular. Because private property and slavery were fundamentally linked in the minds of slave owners, the term 'property' contained a group of metaphors that underwrote a set of white, male claims about autonomy, membership, citizenship, and personhood"--
- Series Statement
- The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture
- Uniform Title
- John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture.
- Subject
- To 1899
- African Americans > Louisiana > History > To 1863
- African Americans > Mississippi > History > To 1863
- African Americans > Louisiana > Social conditions > 19th century
- African Americans > Mississippi > Social conditions > 19th century
- Actions and defenses > Louisiana
- Actions and defenses > Mississippi
- Actions and defenses
- African Americans
- African Americans > Social conditions
- Louisiana
- Mississippi
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: A bind of their own making -- Telling stories -- The rhetoric of reputation -- Advocacy -- Your word is your bond -- The sanctity of property -- Subjects of selfhood -- For family and property -- Afterword: From property to Plessy -- Appendix: Researching black litigants.
- Call Number
- Sc E 18-435
- ISBN
- 9781469636436
- 1469636433
- 9781469636443 (canceled/invalid)
- 1469636441 (canceled/invalid)
- 9781469636450 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2017026939
- OCLC
- 990778129
- Author
- Welch, Kimberly M., author.
- Title
- Black litigants in the antebellum American South / Kimberly M. Welch.
- Publisher
- Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2018]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and cultureJohn Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- To 1899
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 18-435