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

by Laura F. Edwards

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:080785932X

ISBN13:9780807859322

Release Date:April 2009

Publisher:University of North Carolina Press

Length:448 Pages

Weight:1.45 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"

Related Subjects

African-American Studies History Law Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Specific Demographics

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