Tracing British West Indian Slavery Laws: A Comparative Analysis of Legal Transplants (Routledge Studies in Comparative Legal History)
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- Synopsis
- This book provides a legal historical insight into colonial laws on enslavement and the plantation system in the British West Indies. The volume is a work of comparative legal history of the English-Speaking Caribbean which concentrates on how the laws of England served to catalyse the slavery laws and also legislation pertaining to post-emancipation societies. The book illustrates how these “borrowed” laws from England not only developed colonial slavery laws within the English speaking Caribbean but also inspired the slavery codes of a number of North American plantation systems. The cusp of the work focuses on the interconnectivities among the English-speaking slave holding Atlantic and how persons, free and unfree, moved throughout the system and brought laws with them which greatly affected the various enslaved societies. The book will be essential reading for students and researchers interested in colonial slavery, Caribbean Studies, Black and Atlantic history.
- Copyright:
- 2022
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Book Size:
- 206 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9781000515671
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781032122991, 9781003224006, 9781032123042
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Date of Addition:
- 01/18/22
- Copyrighted By:
- Justine K. Collins. The right of Justine K. Collins to be identified as author of this work has been asserted in accordance with sections
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction, Law, Legal Issues and Ethics
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- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.