Slavery and Crime in Missouri, 1773-1865
Slavery and Crime in Missouri, 1773-1865

Author: Harriet C. Frazier

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2001-01-01

Total Pages: 342

ISBN-13: 9780786409778

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Slavery and its lasting effects have long been an issue in America, with the scars inflicted running deep. This study examines crimes such as stealing, burglary, arson, rape and murder committed against and by slaves, with most of the author's information coming from handwritten court records and newspapers. These documents show the death penalty rarely applied when a slave killed another slave, but that it always applied when a slave killed a white person. Despite Missouri's grim criminal justice system, the state's best lawyers were called upon to represent slaves in court on serious criminal charges, and federal law applied to all persons, granting slaves in Missouri protection that few other slave states had. By 1860, Missouri's population was only 10 percent slave, the smallest percentage of any slave state in America.

Commentary
Commentary

Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Criminal Justice

Publisher:

Published: 1974

Total Pages: 72

ISBN-13:

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Criminal Law Conversations
Criminal Law Conversations

Author: Paul H. Robinson

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 761

ISBN-13: 0199861277

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Criminal Law Conversations provides an authoritative overview of contemporary criminal law debates in the United States. This collection of high caliber scholarly papers was assembled using an innovative and interactive method of nominations and commentary by the nation's top legal scholars. Virtually every leading scholar in the field has participated, resulting in a volume of interest to those both in and outside of the community. Criminal Law Conversations showcases the most captivating of these essays, and provides insight into the most fundamental and provocative questions of modern criminal law. * Jeffrie G. Murphy's, essay "Remorse, Apology & Mercy," was declared Recommended Reading in the Green Bag Almanac and Reader, 2010.