Local matters
Subtitle: race, crime, and justice in the nineteenth-century South
By: edited by Christopher Waldrep & Donald G. Nieman
Contributors: Waldrep, Christopher, 1951-; Nieman, Donald G
Series: Studies in the legal history of the South
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Athens
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
Subjects: Slavery -- Law and legislation -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century; Discrimination in justice administration -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century; African Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century; African American criminals -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century; Southern States -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Judging slavery: Thomas Ruffin and State v. Mann / Sally Hadden; title: The roots of fairness: State v. Caesar and slave justice in antebellum North Carolina / Timothy S. Huebner; title: Slaves and crime: New Orleans, 1840-1862 / Judith Kelleher Schafer; title: The law and the culture of slavery: Natchez, Mississippi / Ariela Gross; title: Women and the law: domestic discord in North Carolina after the Civil War / Laura F. Edwards; title: Extralegal violence and the planter class: the Ku Klux Klan in the Alabama Black belt during Reconstruction / Michael W. Fitzgerald; title: Federal enforcement of Black rights in the post-redemption South: the Ellenton riot case / Lou Falkner Williams; title: African American communities, politics, and justice: Washington County, Texas, 1865-1890 / Donald G. Nieman; title: Black political leadership: Warren County, Mississippi / Christopher Waldrep