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 LAW Johnny C. Burris Collection - 3rd Floor  KF366 .E329 2009    AVAILABLE  
Author Edwards, Laura F.
Title The people and their peace : legal culture and the transformation of inequality in the post-revolutionary south / Laura F. Edwards.
OCLC 255954426
ISBN 9780807832639 (cloth : alk. paper)
0807832634 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780807859322 (pbk.)
080785932X (pbk.)
Publisher Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2009]
©2009
Description xvi, 430 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
LC Subject heading/s Law -- Social aspects -- Southern States -- History.
Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.
Enslaved persons -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.
Free African Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.
People with social disabilities -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.
Burris Collection.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-410) and index.
Contents All was chaos in our legal world : excavating localized law from beneath the layers of Southern history -- Keeping the peace : people's proximity to law -- Bread from chaff : defining offenses against the peace -- Possession and the personality of property : the material basis of authority -- Wasted substance : the operation and regulation of patriarchy -- Subjects vs. rights-holding individuals -- New states : freemen as consistent units of measure.
Summary This study discusses changes in the legal logic of slavery, race, and gender. Drawing on extensive archival research in North and South Carolina, Laura F. Edwards illuminates those changes by revealing the importance of localized legal practice.
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