Slavery on trial
Subtitle: race, class, and criminal justice in Antebellum Richmond, Virginia
By: James M. Campbell ; foreword by John David Smith.
Series: New perspectives on the history of the South
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Gainesville, FL
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780813030913
Subjects: Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- Virginia -- Richmond -- History -- 19th century; Slaves -- Virginia -- Richmond -- Social conditions -- 19th century; Freedmen -- Virginia -- Richmond -- Social conditions -- 19th century; Richmond (Va.) -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Abandoned to causes of corruption : slave life and policing in the city; title: "An evil which demands a speedy remedy" : white criminality in an urban slave society; title: "The victim of prejudice and hasty consideration" : slave trials, clemency, and punishment; title: "With these poor rogues their judge had never dined" : honor, law, and the trial and punishment of white criminals; title: The "stigma, of the deepest degradation, was fixed upon the whole race" : free African Americans and the criminal justice system.