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In the matter of color : race and the American legal process : the colonial period / A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Higginbotham, A. Leon, Jr., 1928-1998.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Slavery--Law and legislation--United States--History.
- Slavery.
- Slavery--Law and legislation.
- African Americans--Legal status, laws, etc.
- History.
- United States.
- African Americans--Legal status, laws, etc--History.
- African Americans.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xxiii, 512 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, facsimile ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1980.
- Summary:
- In his first book, Judge A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr., one of the first five African Americans to become a federal judge, shows how the law itself contributed to inflicting injustice on millions of Americans, solely on the basis of their color. For many readers - even those well-steeped in African-American studies or American history or the law - this book will stir new passions.
- Notes:
- Negro slavery. Legal aspects. United States, to 1776 (BNB/PRECIS).
- Originally published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1978.
- Bibl.: pages 397-403.-Index.
- ISBN:
- 0195027450
- 9780195027457
- OCLC:
- 219923586
- Publisher Number:
- 3567863 BNLS
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