Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-2011
Abstract
The four articles in this special issue experiment with an innovative set of questions and a variety of methods in order to push the analysis of slavery and the law into new territory. Their scope is broadly Atlantic, encompassing Suriname and Saint-Domingue/Haiti, New York and New Orleans, port cities and coffee plantations. Each essay deals with named individuals in complex circumstances, conveying their predicaments as fine-grained microhistories rather than as shocking anecdotes. Each author, moreover, demonstrates that the moments when law engaged slavery not only reflected but also influenced larger dynamics of sovereignty and jurisprudence.
Recommended Citation
Scott, Rebecca J. "Slavery and the Law in Atlantic Perspective: Jurisdiction, Jurisprudence, and Justice." Law & Hist. Rev. 29, no. 4 (2011): 915-24.
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