Fathers of conscience [electronic resource] : mixed-race inheritance in the antebellum South / Bernie D. Jones.
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TextSeries: Studies in the legal history of the SouthPublication details: Athens, Ga. : University of Georgia Press, c2009.Description: xiv, 197 p. : illSubject(s): - Racially mixed people -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century
- Illegitimate children -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century
- Women slaves -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century
- Wills -- Southern States -- Cases
- Inheritance and succession -- Social aspects -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century
- Men, White -- Family relationships -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century
- Slaveholders -- Family relationships -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century
- Slaves -- Family relationships -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century
- Social classes -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century
- Southern States -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Righteous fathers, vulnerable old men, and degraded creatures -- Slavery, freedom, and the rule of law -- Justice and mercy in the Kentucky Court of Appeals -- Circling the wagons and clamping down : the Mississippi High Court of Errors and Appeals -- The people of Barnwell against the Supreme Court of South Carolina : the case of Elijah Willis.
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