The people and their peace
Subtitle: legal culture and the transformation of inequality in the post-revolutionary south
By: Laura F. Edwards.
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 430
ISBN-13: 9780807832639
Subjects: Law -- Social aspects -- Southern States -- History; Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century; Slaves -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century; Free African Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century; People with social disabilities -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: All was chaos in our legal world : excavating localized law from beneath the layers of southern history; title: Keeping the peace : people's proximity to law; title: Bread from chaff: defining offenses against the peace; title: Possession and the personality of property: the material basis of authority; title: Wasted substance: the operation and regulation of patriarchy; title: Subjects vs. rights-holding individuals; title: New states : freemen as consistent units of measure.