In an examination of Southern slave law between 1810 and 1860, Mark Tushnet reveals a structured dichotomy between slave labor systems and bourgeois systems of

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

Tying together legal, historical, social, political and literary strands to show how the law itself was implicated in the persistence of slavery, this work shed