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A Degraded Caste of Society
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Unequal Protection of the Law as a Badge of Slavery
Vorbestellbar | Lieferzeit: Vorbestellbar - Erscheint laut Verlag im/am 01.10.2024. I
Erstverkaufstag: 01.10.2024
Artikel-Nr:
9780820366296
Veröffentl:
2024
Erscheinungsdatum:
01.10.2024
Seiten:
320
Autor:
Andrew T Fede
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
ANDREW T. FEDE is of counsel to the law firm Archer & Greiner, P.C., based in New Jersey, and, since 1986, has been an adjunct professor teaching law courses at Montclair State University. He is the author of Homicide Justified: The Legality of Killing Slaves in the United States and the Atlantic World, Roadblocks to Freedom: Slavery and Manumission in the United States South, and People without Rights: An Interpretation of the Fundamentals of the Law of Slavery in the U.S. South.
A Degraded Caste of Society traces the origins of twenty-first-century cases of interracial violence, such as the February 2020 murder of Ahmaud Arbery, to the separate and unequal protection principles of the criminal law of enslavement in the southern United States. These principles, which were extended by antebellum appellate court opinions and statutes to the South's free Black population, consigned Black people to what South Carolina justice John Belton O'Neall called a "degraded caste of society." Under these statutes and court decisions, O'Neall contended that free Blacks were "in no respect, on a perfect equality with the white man."