Southern Slavery and the Law, 1619-1860 (Studies in Legal History)
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: February 10, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 592
ISBN-13: 9780807848173
Subjects: American history: c 1500 to c 1800; American history: c 1800 to c 1900; Constitutional & administrative law; Slavery & emancipation; Social history; c 1600 to c 1700; c 1700 to c 1800; c 1800 to c 1900; United States - General; Slavery; U.S. Local History - Southern States; History - U.S.; Law; USA; Legal History; History; History / United States / General; Law-Legal History; Social Science / African-American Studies; Social Science-Slavery; United states; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General
First sentence: "These two words, Negro and Slave," the Reverend Morgan Godwyn wrote in 1680, had "by custom grown Homogeneous and convertible; even as Negro and Christian, Englishman and Heathen, are by the like corrupt Custom and Partiality made Opposites."