Fathers of conscience [electronic resource] : mixed-race inheritance in the antebellum South / Bernie D. Jones.

By: Jones, Bernie DContributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in the legal history of the SouthPublication details: Athens, Ga. : University of Georgia Press, c2009Description: xiv, 197 p. : illISBN: 9780820342306 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): Racially mixed people -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century | Illegitimate children -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century | Women slaves -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century | Wills -- Southern States -- Cases | Inheritance and succession -- Social aspects -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century | Men, White -- Family relationships -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century | Slaveholders -- Family relationships -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century | Slaves -- Family relationships -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century | Social classes -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century | Southern States -- Race relations -- History -- 19th centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 342.7508/7 LOC classification: KF4755 | .J66 2009Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Righteous fathers, vulnerable old men, and degraded creatures -- Slavery, freedom, and the rule of law -- Justice and mercy in the Kentucky Court of Appeals -- Circling the wagons and clamping down : the Mississippi High Court of Errors and Appeals -- The people of Barnwell against the Supreme Court of South Carolina : the case of Elijah Willis.
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Righteous fathers, vulnerable old men, and degraded creatures -- Slavery, freedom, and the rule of law -- Justice and mercy in the Kentucky Court of Appeals -- Circling the wagons and clamping down : the Mississippi High Court of Errors and Appeals -- The people of Barnwell against the Supreme Court of South Carolina : the case of Elijah Willis.

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