Slavery in the Courtroom
Slavery in the Courtroom

Author: Paul Finkelman

Publisher: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 188636348X

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Winner, Joseph A. Andrews Award from the American Association of Law Libraries, 1986. Provides a detailed discussion and analysis of the pamphlet materials on the law of slavery published in the United States and Great Britain.

The Old Dominion in the Seventeenth Century
The Old Dominion in the Seventeenth Century

Author: Warren M. Billings

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 1975

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 9780807812372

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This book is a convenient collection of seventeenth-century Virginia documentary source material. Using the observations, descriptions, and legal documents of the colonists themselves, this book makes it possible to reconstruct the process by which order was established in the wilderness during Virginia's first century.

The Common Law in Colonial America
The Common Law in Colonial America

Author: William E. Nelson

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2008-08-05

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 0199716714

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Drawing on groundbreaking and overwhelmingly extensive research into local court records, The Common Law in Colonial America proposes a "new beginning" in the study of colonial legal history, as it charts the course of the common law in Early America, to reveal how the models of law that emerged differed drastically from that of the English common law. In this first volume, Nelson explores how the law of the Chesapeake colonies--Virginia and Maryland--differed from the New England colonies--Massachusetts Bay, Connecticut, New Haven, Plymouth, and Rhode Island--and looks at the differences between the colonial legal systems within the two regions, from their initial settlement until approximately 1660.

"Myne Owne Ground"

Author: T. H. Breen

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 169

ISBN-13: 0195175379

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During the earliest decades of Virginia history, some men and women who arrived in the New World as slaves achieved freedom and formed a stable community on the Eastern shore. Holding their own with white neighbors for much of the 17th century, these free blacks purchased freedom for family members, amassed property, established plantations, and acquired laborers. T.H. Breen and Stephen Innes reconstruct a community in which ownership of property was as significant as skin color in structuring social relations. Why this model of social interaction in race relations did not survive makes this a critical and urgent work of history.