Download or read book Legal and Moral Aspects of Slavery written by Gamaliel Bradford and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1969 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Slave Trade and the Origins of International Human Rights Law written by Jenny S. Martinez and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2012-01-04 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a broad consensus among scholars that the idea of human rights was a product of the Enlightenment but that a self-conscious and broad-based human rights movement focused on international law only began after World War II. In this book, the nineteenth century's absence is conspicuous - few have considered that era seriously, much less written books on it. But as this author shows, the foundation of the movement that we know today was a product of one of the nineteenth century's central moral causes: the movement to ban the international slave trade.
Download or read book The Unconstitutionality of Slavery written by Lysander Spooner and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-12 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Unconstitutionality of Slavery' is a groundbreaking book by American abolitionist Lysander Spooner, who argued that slavery was prohibited by the United States Constitution. In contrast to William Lloyd Garrison, who advocated opposing the constitution on the grounds that it supported slavery, Spooner argued that the Constitution actually contained several clauses that were contradictory to the practice of slavery. In the pamphlet, Spooner showed that none of the state governments of the slave states specifically authorized slavery, that slavery was a violation of natural law, and that the intentions of the Constitutional Convention had no legal bearing on the document they created. Thus, Spooner's position employed original meaning-styled textualism and rejected original intent-styled originalism. This influential work was instrumental in the abolitionist movement and the eventual eradication of slavery in the United States.
Download or read book Buying Freedom written by Kwame Anthony Appiah and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2007-07-22 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this examination of the practical and ethical implications of slave redemption the authors deal with questions such as: Does redeeming slaves actually increase the demand for -and so the number of- slaves? And what about cases where it is far from clear that redemption will improve the material condition or increase the real freedom, of a slave?
Download or read book The Problem of the Age Or the Abolition of American Slavery Considered in a Physical and Moral Aspect written by United States and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Law Morality and Abolitionism written by Matthew Hill and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2011-01-18 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1830s the abolitionist movement in the United States refashioned itself under new leadership which was determined to bring slavery to an immediate end. Too often written off by northern and southern opinion-makers alike as fanatics who threatened the social and economic order in America, they struggled in the face of both secular and religious defenders of the institution of slavery. Into this fray stepped Francis Wayland (1796–1865), a leading educator, noted author of textbooks on moral philosophy and economics, and longtime president of Brown University. Initially a moderate on slavery, Wayland with near equal fervor both denounced slavery as sinful and yet countenanced caution in respecting the laws that protected the institution. Like so many of his generation, the flow of events moved him toward Unionism and forced him to confront the logic of his own moral arguments. If slavery was indeed a violation of natural rights, how then could he not act on behalf of those who could not speak for themselves? This work explores his journey.
Download or read book Slave Law in the American South written by Mark V. Tushnet and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Views of American Constitutional Law in Its Bearing Upon American Slavery written by William Goodell and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed analysis of the role of constitutional law in the fight against slavery in the United States. Written by one of the era's most prominent abolitionists, it offers a compelling and insightful look at the legal and moral implications of the battle for human freedom. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Slavery the Law written by Paul Finkelman and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2002 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, prominent historians of slavery and legal scholars analyze the intricate relationship between slavery, race, and the law from the earliest Black Codes in colonial America to the passage of the Fugitive Slave Law and the Dred Scott decision prior to the Civil War. Slavery & the Law's wide-ranging essays focus on comparative slave law, auctioneering practices, rules of evidence, and property rights, as well as issues of criminality, punishment, and constitutional law.
Download or read book On Slavery and the Slave Trade written by Luis de Molina and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his monumental On Justice and Rights, the Jesuit Luis de Molina (1535-1600) discussed the legal and ethical aspects of the Portuguese trade in African and Asian enslaved persons. Molina surveys, develops, and problematizes the criteria necessary for the legitimate possession, sale, and purchase of human freedom. He insists that, even under legally valid slavery, persons who have sold or lost their freedom have inalienable rights as human beings, such as the freedom to make contracts, to marry, and even, under certain circumstances, to sue their owners in court. Molina also devotes attention to the ways in which slavery could be ended and whether and under what circumstances slaves had the right to escape from their owners. Well informed about the political structures and customs of many peoples in Africa, as well as Japan, China, and India, Molina paints a vivid and detailed picture of Portuguese trade. He gives specific accounts of the origins and development of the slave trade, region by region, and of the nature of the relationship between local rulers and the Portuguese kingdom. In doing so, he carefully describes the deception, coercion, and general indifference that pervades this trade regarding the rights to freedom of these people. It also attempts to identify the political, ecclesiastical, and market agents involved in this great injustice and their varying degrees of culpability. While Molina does not condemn slavery as a legal institution, the deeply flawed and even immoral behavior of sellers, buyers, regulators, and political rulers both in Portugal and in the slave-supplying regions that Molina denounces casts a heavy shadow on the morality of the trade.
Download or read book Abolition a Sedition by a Northern Man written by Calvin Colton and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-17 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Abolition a Sedition, by a Northern Man' is a non-fiction book that attempts to paint the Abolition movement as a seditious movement intended to subvert the U.S. government. As one can guess, some of the talking points discussed in this book are very outdated to contemporary perspectives. Despite this, the book provides valuable insight into the Anti-Abolition movement that occurred at the time, even in the Northern states.
Download or read book The Barbarism of Slavery written by Charles Sumner and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-10 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Barbarism of Slavery' is a speech delivered by Charles Sumner, an American statesman and United States Senator from Massachusetts, on the Bill for the Admission of Kansas as a Free State. Sumner was the leader of the anti-slavery forces in the state and a leader of the Radical Republicans in the U.S. Senate during the American Civil War. South Carolina Democratic congressman Preston Brooks once beat Sumner nearly to death with a cane on the Senate floor after Sumner delivered an anti-slavery speech, "The Crime Against Kansas."
Download or read book The Law of American Slavery written by Kermit L. Hall and published by Articles-Garlan. This book was released on 1987 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is a collection of articles on the operation of the law or slavery in the American South before the Civil War. The reliance of the law to define the condition of the slave under the American slavery system is analyzed in these articles.
Download or read book Slavery and the Death Penalty written by Bharat Malkani and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-18 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has long been acknowledged that the death penalty in the United States of America has been shaped by the country's history of slavery and racial violence, but this book considers the lesser-explored relationship between the two practices' respective abolitionist movements. The book explains how the historical and conceptual links between slavery and capital punishment have both helped and hindered efforts to end capital punishment. The comparative study also sheds light on the nature of such efforts, and offers lessons for how death penalty abolitionism should proceed in future. Using the history of slavery and abolition, it is argued that anti-death penalty efforts should be premised on the ideologies of the radical slavery abolitionists.
Download or read book The American Slave Code in Theory and Practice written by William Goodell and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Moral Dilemmas in Slave owning Societies Evidence from Early Legal Texts written by Fernanda Pirie and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
