1 option
A degraded caste of society : unequal protection of the law as a badge of slavery / Andrew T. Fede.
Van Pelt Library KF4545.S5 F423 2024
Available
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fede, Andrew, author.
- Series:
- Southern legal studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Slavery--Law and legislation--Southern States.
- Slavery.
- Slavery--Law and legislation--United States.
- Race discrimination--Law and legislation--Southern States.
- Race discrimination.
- Race discrimination--Law and legislation--United States.
- African Americans--Civil rights--History.
- African Americans.
- Equality before the law--United States.
- Equality before the law.
- Appellate courts--United States.
- Appellate courts.
- Physical Description:
- 292 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Athens, Georgia : The University of Georgia Press, [2024]
- Summary:
- "A Degraded Caste of Society uses antebellum US appellate court options and statues to illuminate "two competing criminal law doctrines that applied" to free Black people: "equal protection and unequal protection based on perceptions of race." These doctrines, Fede argues, "reflect the broader social conflicts between two competing legal cultures and legal consciousnesses. The legacy of these laws "continued to live on" until 2009 legislation made this sort of violence a federal crime. The unequal protection doctrine, which has its roots in the antebellum US, has a "long but not always completely acknowledged" or understood influence on criminal law in the United States"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction : the enslavement law breakout and slavery's badges
- The antebellum equal protection criminal justice road not taken
- Chief Justice Taylor and unequal criminal law protection for slaves
- Ruffin and Gaston extend separate and unequal protection
- Justice O'Neall and unequal protection for free blacks
- Justice Pearson and unequal protection for free blacks
- The Louisiana and Virginia statutes criminalizing insolence
- The differing Texas and Georgia legislative responses to insolence
- Conclusion : a violent badge of slavery.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780820366296
- 0820366293
- OCLC:
- 1419280724
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.