A Peculiar Humanism
Judicial Advocacy of Slavery in High Courts of the Old South, 1820-50
Published on 1. May 1996
Book
Hardback
264 pages
978-0-8203-1797-7 (ISBN)
Description
Assessing the judicial use of oratory in reviewing slave cases and the struggle to fashion a humanist jurisprudence on slavery despite the restraints placed on judicial advocacy, this work examines the public addresses, judicial narratives and private papers of 69 appellate judges.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Georgia
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-0-8203-1797-7 (9780820317977)
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