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Paperback The People and Their Peace: Legal Culture and the Transformation of Inequality in the Post-Revolutionary South Book

ISBN: 080785932X

ISBN13: 9780807859322

The People and Their Peace: Legal Culture and the Transformation of Inequality in the Post-Revolutionary South

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In the half-century following the Revolutionary War, the logic of inequality underwent a profound transformation within the southern legal system. Drawing on extensive archival research in North and South Carolina, Laura F. Edwards illuminates those changes by revealing the importance of localized legal practice.

Edwards shows that following the Revolution, the intensely local legal system favored maintaining the "peace," a concept intended...

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