Black litigants in the antebellum American South / Kimberly M. Welch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Welch, Kimberly M., author.

Series:

John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture.

The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Actions and defenses--Mississippi.

Actions and defenses.

Actions and defenses--Louisiana.

African Americans--Mississippi--Social conditions--19th century.

African Americans.

African Americans--Louisiana--Social conditions--19th century.

African Americans--Mississippi--History--To 1863.

African Americans--Louisiana--History--To 1863.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (323 pages) : illustrations, maps, photographs.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2018

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2018]

Summary:

"This work explores free and enslaved African Americans' involvement in a broad range of civil actions in the Natchez district of Mississippi and Louisiana between 1800 and 1860. Though the antebellum southern courts have long been understood as institutions supporting the class interests and the racial ideologies of the planter and merchant elite, Kimberly Welch shows how black litigants found ways to advocate for themselves even within a racist system. To understand their success, Welch argues that we must understand the language that they used--the language of property, in particular. Because private property and slavery were fundamentally linked in the minds of slave owners, the term 'property' contained a group of metaphors that underwrote a set of white, male claims about autonomy, membership, citizenship, and personhood" -- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2018.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

979-88-908539-0-5

1-4696-3645-X

1-4696-3646-8

OCLC:

1017758110

Access Restriction:

Open access Unrestricted online access