In the Matter of Color: Race and the American Legal Process. The Colonial Period

Portada
OUP USA, 7 ago 1980 - 512 páginas
I knew there was an indisputable nexus between the dark shadow of repression under which, historically, most American blacks have lived and the rioting occurring within ten blocks of the White House. Why, I thought to myself, in the land of the free and the home of the brave, had even brave blacks so often failed to get free? Why had that very legal process that had been devised to protect the rights of individuals against the will of the government and the whim of the majority been often employed so malevolently against blacks?

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Introduction
3
The Leader
19
Slaves and the Pilgrims
61
From HalfFreedom to Slavery
100
White MinorityBlack Majority
151
From Antislavery to Slavery
216
Influence
267
The Setting
313
The Legacy of Sommersett
356
THE REVOLUTION
371
The Moral Antecedents for Challenging in 1776
377
IN THE MATTER OF COLOR
390
Bibliography
397
Notes
405
Index
481
Table of Cases
511

The Case of James Sommersett A Negro
333

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