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Columbia studies in the social sciences volume no. 141
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Studies in history economics and public law volume no. 141
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Legal classics library
Studies in history economics and public law volume no. 141
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Columbia University
Pub. Date
1914.
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English
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University of North Carolina Press
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[1996]
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English
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This volume is the first comprehensive history of the evolving relationship between American slavery and the law from colonial times to the Civil War. As Thomas Morris clearly shows, racial slavery came to the English colonies as an institution without strict legal definitions or guidelines. Therefore, laws governing slaves and slavery had to be incorporated into the body of English common law that formed the basis of legal culture throughout the...
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