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Tying together legal, historical, social, political and literary strands to show how the law itself was implicated in the persistence of slavery, this work sheds new light on slavery and Southern history, as it probes the conscience of a troubled jurist incapable of fully transcending his times.

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Slavery and the Law; The Opinion; Scholars and ""State v. Mann""; Places and Persons; The Novel.

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      Publisher: University Press of Kansas
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/10/2003
      ISBN13: 9780700612710, 978-0700612710
      ISBN10: 0700612718

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Tying together legal, historical, social, political and literary strands to show how the law itself was implicated in the persistence of slavery, this work sheds new light on slavery and Southern history, as it probes the conscience of a troubled jurist incapable of fully transcending his times.

      Table of Contents
      Slavery and the Law; The Opinion; Scholars and ""State v. Mann""; Places and Persons; The Novel.

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