Southern Slavery+the Law,1619-1860

In this comprehensive history of the evolving relationship between American slavery and the law from colonial times to the Civil War, Thomas Morris shows that racial slavery came to the English colonies as an institution without strict legal definitions or guidelines. Southern lawmakers struggled to reconcile a social order based on slavery with existing English common law, with the result that much was left to local interpretation and variance between and within states.Morris, Thomas D. is the author of 'Southern Slavery+the Law,1619-1860' with ISBN 9780807822388 and ISBN 0807822388.