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Slavery and crime in Missouri, 1773-1865 / Harriet C. Frazier.
- Title
- Slavery and crime in Missouri, 1773-1865 / Harriet C. Frazier.
- Author
- Frazier, Harriet C.
- Publication
- Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, c2001.
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| Text | Request in advance | HV6793.M8 F738 2001 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xi, 324 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Slavery and its lasting effects have long been an issue in America, with the scars inflicted running deep. This study examines crimes such as stealing, burglary, arson, rape and murder committed against and by slaves, with most of the authors information coming from handwritten court records and newspapers. These documents show the death penalty rarely applied when a slave killed another slave, but that it always applied when a slave killed a white person. Despite Missouris grim criminal justice system, the states best lawyers were called upon to represent slaves in court on serious criminal charges, and federal law applied to all persons, granting slaves in Missouri protection that few other slave states had. By 1860, Missouris population was only 10 percent slave, the smallest percentage of any slave state in America.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-315) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Spanish colonial administration -- Early American rule -- Noncapital territorial wrongdoing -- Slave Elijah's 1818 trial on a charge of conspiracy -- The 1820 Missouri constitution and its background -- Costs in criminal cases -- Against themselves: Black-on-Black crime -- White perpetrators, Black and Mulatto victims -- Noncapital statehood crime, White and Black -- Capital cases: girls and women -- Capital crimes by coerced boys and men -- Capital crimes by wandering boys and men -- Rape: the crime, its punishment, and its pardons -- Antebellum lynchings of Blacks, slave and free -- Appendix 1. Assault and homicide by Black males with Black male victims: tabular summary -- Appendix 2. Capital and other violent crimes by accused female slaves: tabular summary -- Appendix 3. Battering of Black and Mulatto females by White males: tabular summary -- Appendix 4. Capital and other murders by accused male slaves: tabular summary -- Appendix 5. Blacks and Mulattos lynched in Missouri during slavery: tabular summary.
- ISBN
- 0786409770 (lib. bdg. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2001030381
- OCLC
- 46359371
- SCSB-10399277
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library