The Laws of Slavery in Texas
Language: en
Pages: 209
Authors: Randolph B. Campbell
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-02-15 - Publisher: University of Texas Press

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The laws that governed the institution of slavery in early Texas were enacted over a fifty-year period in which Texas moved through incarnations as a Spanish co
Slavery by Another Name
Language: en
Pages: 429
Authors: Douglas A. Blackmon
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-10-04 - Publisher: Icon Books

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A Pulitzer Prize-winning history of the mistreatment of black Americans. In this 'precise and eloquent work' - as described in its Pulitzer Prize citation - Dou
Southern Slavery and the Law, 1619-1860
Language: en
Pages: 588
Authors: Thomas D. Morris
Categories: Law
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-01-21 - Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

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This volume is the first comprehensive history of the evolving relationship between American slavery and the law from colonial times to the Civil War. As Thomas
South to Freedom
Language: en
Pages: 362
Authors: Alice L Baumgartner
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-11-10 - Publisher: Basic Books

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A brilliant and surprising account of the coming of the American Civil War, showing the crucial role of slaves who escaped to Mexico. The Underground Railroad t
Fugitive Slaves and Spaces of Freedom in North America
Language: en
Pages: 276
Authors: Damian Alan Pargas
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-09-08 - Publisher: University Press of Florida

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This volume introduces a new way to study the experiences of runaway slaves by defining different “spaces of freedom” they inhabited. It also provides a gro