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Southern Slavery and the Law, 1619–1860
studies in legal history
Published by the University of North Carolina Press
in association with the American Society for Legal History
Thomas A. Green and Hendrik Hartog, editors
Thomas D. Morris
Southern Slavery
and the Law,
1619–1860
The University of North Carolina Press
Chapel Hill and London
Publication of this work was made possible in part through a grant from
the Division of Research Programs of the National Endowment for the
Humanities, an independent federal agency whose mission is to award
grants to support education, scholarship, media programming, libraries,
and museums in order to bring the results of cultural activities to a broad,
general public.
∫ 1996 The University of North Carolina Press
All rights reserved
Manufactured in the United States of America
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durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book
Longevity of the Council on Library Resources.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Morris, Thomas D., 1938–
Southern slavery and the law, 1619–1860 / by Thomas D. Morris.
p. cm.—(Studies in legal history)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
isbn 0-8078-2238-8 (cloth : alk. paper)
1. Slavery—Law and legislation—Southern States—History.
2. Slavery—Southern States—History. I. Title. II. Series.
kf482.m67 1996
342.73%087—dc20
95-6565
[347.30287]
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Parts of this work have been published elsewhere and are used here with
permission. Chapter 2 appeared as ‘‘ ‘Villeinage . . . as It Existed in
England, Reflects but Little Light on Our Subject’: The Problem of the
Sources of Southern Slave Law’’ in the
American Journal of Legal History
32 (April 1988): 95–137. A portion of Chapter 6 appeared as ‘‘ ‘Society Is
Not Marked by Punctuality in the Payment of Debts’: The Chattel
Mortgages of Slaves’’ in
Ambivalent Legacy: A Legal History of the South
,
edited by David J. Bodenhamer and James W. Ely Jr. (Jackson: University
Press of Mississippi, 1984), 147–70. Chapter 10 appeared as ‘‘Slaves and the
Rules of Evidence in Criminal Trials’’ in the
Chicago-Kent Law Review
68
(1992): 1209–40. Finally, Chapter 17 appeared as ‘‘ ‘As If the Injury Was
E√ected by the Natural Elements of Air or Fire’: Slave Wrongs and the
Liability of Masters’’ in
Law and Society Review
16 (1981–82): 569–99.
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