The Acts of the General Assembly of the State of North-Carolina Passed During the Sessions Held in the Years 1791, 1792, 1793, and 1794
Author: North Carolina
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Published: 1795
Total Pages: 206
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Author: North Carolina
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Published: 1795
Total Pages: 206
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Joseph Stancliffe Davis
Publisher: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 992
ISBN-13: 1584774274
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Laura F. Edwards
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2014-06-30
Total Pages: 448
ISBN-13: 1469619857
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the half-century following the Revolutionary War, the logic of inequality underwent a profound transformation within the southern legal system. Drawing on extensive archival research in North and South Carolina, Laura F. Edwards illuminates those changes by revealing the importance of localized legal practice. Edwards shows that following the Revolution, the intensely local legal system favored maintaining the "peace," a concept intended to protect the social order and its patriarchal hierarchies. Ordinary people, rather than legal professionals and political leaders, were central to its workings. Those without rights--even slaves--had influence within the system because of their positions of subordination, not in spite of them. By the 1830s, however, state leaders had secured support for a more centralized system that excluded people who were not specifically granted individual rights, including women, African Americans, and the poor. Edwards concludes that the emphasis on rights affirmed and restructured existing patriarchal inequalities, giving them new life within state law with implications that affected all Americans. Placing slaves, free blacks, and white women at the center of the story, The People and Their Peace recasts traditional narratives of legal and political change and sheds light on key issues in U.S. history, including the persistence of inequality--particularly slavery--in the face of expanding democracy.
Author: Joseph Stancliffe Davis
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Published: 1917
Total Pages: 440
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Published: 1917
Total Pages: 440
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Stephen Beauregard Weeks
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Published: 1891
Total Pages: 90
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Joseph Sabin
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Published: 1881
Total Pages: 596
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Joseph Sabin
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Published: 1881
Total Pages: 600
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