In this book, prominent historians of slavery and legal scholars analyze the intricate relationsh...

Much of the current reassessment of race, culture, and criminal justice in the nineteenth-century...

How did Africans become 'blacks' in the Americas? Becoming Free, Becoming Black tells the story o...

How did Africans become 'blacks' in the Americas? Becoming Free, Becoming Black tells the story o...

The series Studies on Modern Orient provides an overview of religious, political and ...

In a groundbreaking study of the day-to-day law and culture of slavery, Ariela Gross investigates...

Is race something we know when we see it? In 1857, Alexina Morrison, a slave in Louisiana, ran aw...

Is race something we know when we see it? In 1857, Alexina Morrison, a slave in Louisiana, ran aw...

Die Reihe Studies on Modern Orient wurde als Studien zum Modernen Orient im Klaus Sch...

In a groundbreaking study of the day-to-day law and culture of slavery, Ariela Gross investigates...

A study of the law and culture of slavery in the antebellum Deep South that takes readers into lo...

Becoming Free, Becoming Black offers the first comparative study of law, race, and freedom in the...