| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 331 pages). |
| Series |
Law, Literature & Culture ; 1 |
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Law, Literature & Culture ; 1.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access |
Open access MiU |
| Summary |
This first title in the "Law, Literature & Culture" series uses six legal disputes from the South Carolina courts to illuminate the complex legal history of race in the U.S. South from slavery through Jim Crow. The first two cases--one criminal, one civil--both illuminate the extreme oppressiveness of slavery. The third explores labor relations between newly emancipated Black agricultural workers and white landowners during Reconstruction. The remaining cases investigate three prominent features of the Jim Crow system: segregated schools, racially biased juries, and lynching, respectively. Throughout the century under consideration, South Carolina's legal system obsessively drew racial lines, always to the detriment of non-white people, but it occasionally provided a public forum within which racial oppression could be challenged. The book emphasizes how dramatically the degree of legal oppressiveness experienced by Black South Carolinians varied during the century under study, based largely on the degree of Black access to political and legal power. |
| Note |
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial 4.0 International License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 |
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Description based on information from the publisher. |
| Subject |
Race discrimination -- Law and legislation -- South Carolina -- History.
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African Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- South Carolina -- History.
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Law -- Social aspects -- South Carolina -- History.
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| Added Author |
Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), publisher.
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| ISBN |
9781943208333 (electronic book) |
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1943208336 (electronic book) |
| Standard No. |
10.3998/mpub.12531540 doi |
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