Black litigants in the antebellum American South [electronic resource] / Kimberly M. Welch.
- 作者： Welch, Kimberly M.
- 其他題名：
- The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture
- 出版： Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press 2018.
- 叢書名： The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture
- 主題： 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--Lousiana , Actions and defenses--Mississippi
- ISBN： 9781469636467 (ebook) 、 9781469636436 (cloth) 、 9781469636450 (ebook)
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- 一般註：System requirements: Ainosco ebooks
- 書目註：Includes bibliographical references and index
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- 系統號： 005296498 | 機讀編目格式
館藏資訊
In the antebellum Natchez district, in the heart of slave country, black people sued white people in all-white courtrooms. They sued to enforce the terms of their contracts, recover unpaid debts, recuperate back wages, and claim damages for assault. They sued in conflicts over property and personal status. And they often won. Based on new research conducted in courthouse basements and storage sheds in rural Mississippi and Louisiana, Kimberly Welch draws on over 1,000 examples of free and enslaved black litigants who used the courts to protect their interests and reconfigure their place in a tense society. To understand their success, Welch argues that we must understand the language that they used — the language of property, in particular — to make their claims recognizable and persuasive to others and to link their status as owner to the ideal of a free, autonomous citizen. In telling their stories, Welch reveals a previously unknown world of black legal activity, one that is consequential for understanding the long history of race, rights, and civic inclusion in America.