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The people and their peace : legal culture and the transformation of inequality in the post-revolutionary south / Laura F. Edwards.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Edwards, Laura F.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Law--Social aspects--Southern States--History.
- Law.
- Women--Legal status, laws, etc--Southern States--History--19th century.
- Women.
- Enslaved persons--Legal status, laws, etc--Southern States--History--19th century.
- Enslaved persons.
- Free African Americans--Legal status, laws, etc--Southern States--History--19th century.
- Free African Americans.
- People with social disabilities--Legal status, laws, etc--Southern States--History--19th century.
- People with social disabilities.
- People with social disabilities--Legal status, laws, etc.
- History.
- Enslaved persons--Legal status, laws, etc.
- Women--Legal status, laws, etc.
- Law--Social aspects.
- Southern States.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 430 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2009]
- Contents:
- All was chaos in our legal world : excavating localized law from beneath the layers of Southern history
- Keeping the peace : people's proximity to law
- Bread from chaff : defining offenses against the peace
- Possession and the personality of property : the material basis of authority
- Wasted substance : the operation and regulation of patriarchy
- Subjects vs. rights-holding individuals
- New states : freemen as consistent units of measure.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-410) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780807832639
- 0807832634
- OCLC:
- 255954426
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