Central to the development of the American legal system, writes Professor Finkelman in Slavery & the Law, is the ins
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This volume shows that slaves acquired by some ruling households were incorporated into patterns of kinship. Colonial ab
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W. W. Buckland's highly regarded magisterial work of 1908 is a scholarly and thorough description of the principles
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In Seward's Law, Peter Charles Hoffer argues that William H. Seward's legal practice in Auburn, New York, info
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On November 29, 1781, Captain Collingwood of the British ship Zong commanded his crew to throw overboard one-third of hi
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A new historical anthology from transatlantic slavery to the Reconstruction curated by the Schomburg Center, that makes
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The phenomenon of child trafficking holds a unique position as an issue of significant contemporary relevance, occupying
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The Law and Slavery delivers Professor Jean Allain's foundations which have led to the renaissance of the legal und
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In Fighting for the Higher Law, Peter Wirzbicki explores how important black abolitionists joined famous Transcendentali
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