Homicide justified : the legality of killing slaves in the United States and the Atlantic world /

This comparative study looks at the laws concerning the murder of slaves by their masters and at how these laws were implemented. Andrew T. Fede cites a wide range of cases-across time, place, and circumstance-to illuminate legal, judicial, and other complexities surrounding this regrettably common...

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Author / Creator: Fede, Andrew (Author)
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Imprint: Athens, Georgia : University of Georgia Press, [2017]
Series:Southern legal studies.
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