Description: The Bondsman's Burden An Economic Analysis of the Common Law of Southern Slavery This 1998 book presents a rigorous, compelling economic analysis of the common law of Southern slavery, inspecting thousands of legal disputes. Jenny Bourne Wahl (Author) 9780521521383, Cambridge University Press Paperback / softback, published 22 August 2002 292 pages 21.7 x 16.9 x 2 cm, 0.43 kg "Wahl has written an important book. She has reviewed an enormous number of appellate cases and has suggest that was a difference between rules relating to slaves and other persons. Her evidence implies that southern law, because of slavery, was affected by economic values, one of which was that slave property should receive special protection." Law & History Review Fall 01 Were slaves property or human beings under the law? In crafting answers to this question, Southern judges designed efficient laws that protected property rights and helped slavery remain economically viable. But, by preserving property rights, they sheltered the persons embodied by that property - the slaves themselves. Slave law therefore had unintended consequences: it generated rules that judges could apply to free persons, precedents that became the foundation for laws designed to protect ordinary Americans. The Bondsman's Burden, first published in 1998, provides a rigorous and compelling economic analysis of the common law of Southern slavery, inspecting thousands of legal disputes heard in Southern antebellum courts, disputes involving servants, employees, accident victims, animals, and other chattel property, as well as slaves. The common law, although it supported the institution of slavery, did not favor every individual slave owner who brought a grievance to court. 1. American slavery and the path of the law 2. The law of sales: slaves, animals, and commodities 3. The law of hiring and employment: slaves, animals, and free persons 4. The law regarding common carriers: slaves, animals, commodities, and free persons 5. The law regarding governments, government officials, slave patrollers, and overseers: protecting private property versus keeping public peace 6. The legal rights and responsibilities of strangers toward slaves, animals, and free persons 7. Treatment of one's slaves, servants, animals, and relatives: legal boundaries and the problem of social cost 8. The south's law of slavery: reflecting the felt necessities of the time. Subject Areas: Slavery & abolition of slavery [HBTS]
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BIC Subject Area 1: Slavery & abolition of slavery [HBTS]
Book Title: The Bondsman's Burden
ISBN: 0521521386
Publication Date: 22/08/2002
Item Depth: 20
Number of Pages: 292 Pages
Publication Name: The Bondsman's Burden: an Economic Analysis of the Common Law of Southern Slavery
Language: English
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Item Height: 217 mm
Subject: History
Publication Year: 2002
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 430 g
Subject Area: Constitutional Law
Author: Jenny Bourne Wahl
Item Width: 169 mm
Series: Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society
Format: Paperback
