UID:
almahu_9949385376802882
Format:
1 online resource.
ISBN:
9781000515671
,
1000515672
,
9781003224006
,
1003224008
,
1000515648
,
9781000515640
Series Statement:
Routledge studies in comparative legal history
Content:
"This book provides a legal historical insight into colonial laws on enslavement and the plantation system in the British West Indies. The volume is a work of comparative legal history of the English-Speaking Caribbean which concentrates on how the laws of England served to catalyse the slavery laws and also legislation pertaining to post-emancipation societies. The book illustrates how these "borrowed" laws from England not only developed colonial slavery laws within the English speaking Caribbean but also inspired the slavery codes of a number of North American plantation systems. The cusp of the work focuses on the interconnectivities among the English-speaking slave holding Atlantic and how persons, free and unfree, moved throughout the system and brought laws with them which greatly affected the various enslaved societies"--
Note:
The origins of legal transplantation in the British West Indies (British Caribbean), 1500-1700s -- The origins of slave laws within the British West Indies, 1600s -- The comprehensive slave codes of the British West Indies and their reverberations, 1660-1700s -- The role of legal transplantation within Manumission law and other ameliorative measures -- Legal transplantation within post emancipatory British West Indies, 1830s-1870s.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Collins, Justine K. Tracing British West Indian slavery laws. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022 ISBN 9781032122991
Language:
English
Keywords:
History.
DOI:
10.4324/9781003224006
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003224006
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