A peculiar humanism : the judicial advocacy of slavery in High Courts of the Old South, 1820-1850.

Door: Wiethoff, WIlliam E.

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• ISBN: 9780820317977
• Uitgever: Athens : The University of Georgia Press, c1996. Orig. cloth binding. Dustjacket. xiii,247 pp. (Studies in the legal history of the South). Conditie: als nieuw
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• Extra informatie: - Assessing the judicial use of oratory in reviewing slave cases and the struggle to fashion a humanist jurisprudence on slavery despite the restraints placed on judicial advocacy, this work examines the public addresses, judicial narratives and private papers of 69 appellate judges.
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