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Author Jones, Bernie D.

Title Fathers of conscience : mixed-race inheritance in the antebellum South / Bernie D. Jones.

Publication Info. Athens : University of Georgia Press, [2009]
©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 197 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Studies in the legal history of the South
Studies in the legal history of the South.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-182) and index.
Contents Righteous fathers, vulnerable old men, and degraded creatures -- Slavery, freedom, and the rule of law -- Justice and mercy in the Kentucky Court of Appeals -- Circling the wagons and clamping down : the Mississippi High Court of Errors and Appeals -- The people of Barnwell against the Supreme Court of South Carolina : the case of Elijah Willis.
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Subject Racially mixed people -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.
Racially mixed people -- Legal status, laws, etc.
Southern States.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Racially mixed people.
Illegitimate children -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.
Illegitimate children -- Legal status, laws, etc.
Illegitimate children.
Enslaved women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.
Enslaved women.
Wills -- Southern States -- Cases.
Wills.
Inheritance and succession -- Social aspects -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.
Inheritance and succession -- Social aspects.
Inheritance and succession.
Men, White -- Family relationships -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.
Men, White.
Families.
Slaveholders -- Family relationships -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.
Slaveholders.
Enslaved persons -- Family relationships -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.
Enslaved persons -- Family relationships.
Enslaved persons.
Social classes -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.
Social classes.
Southern States -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century.
Race relations.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Jones, Bernie D. Fathers of conscience. Athens : University of Georgia Press, ©2009 9780820329802 (DLC) 2008043133 (OCoLC)225874025
ISBN 9780820342306 (electronic book)
0820342300 (electronic book)
9780820329802
0820329800
9780820332512
0820332518