Slavery, Violence, and Law in the Nineteenth-Century South
34 Pages Posted: 24 Dec 2008
Date Written: December 22, 2008
Abstract
Southern economic history is inseparable from Southern legal history. This essay surveys several cases and examples before and after the Civil War to illustrate some of the problems associated with large-scale institutional change in settings where the array of property rights and the structure of social capital are in conflict with one another.
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Carden, Art, Slavery, Violence, and Law in the Nineteenth-Century South (December 22, 2008). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1319484 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1319484
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