[E-BOOK] Fathers of Conscience: Mixed-Race Inheritance in the Antebellum South (Studies in the Legal History of the South) (Studies in the Legal History of the South Ser.)
❀ Bernie Jones ❀
| #2763465 in Books | University of Georgia Press | 2009-02-15 | 2009-02-15 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x.60 x6.00l,.70 | File Name: 0820332518 | 216 pages |
||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Revelatory|By Robert H. Stucky|Fathers of Conscience is a powerful revelation of the complexities of our racial history and its integral connection to the creation and application of the law. A must read for anyone interested in the history of civil rights in America.|3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| My family is mentioned in this|||This book provides a wealth of information about conceptions of moral behavior, interracial sexual activity, and notions of family in the antebellum South. Jones has carefully mined trial court records to uncover the highly personal nature of these inheritan
Fathers of Conscience examines high-court decisions in the antebellum South that involved wills in which white male planters bequeathed property, freedom, or both to women of color and their mixed-race children. These men, whose wills were contested by their white relatives, had used trusts and estates law to give their slave partners and children official recognition and thus circumvent the law of slavery. The will contests that followed determined whether th...
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