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Slavery --- Law and legislation --- History. --- Abolition of slavery --- Antislavery --- Enslavement --- Mui tsai --- Ownership of slaves --- Servitude --- Slave keeping --- Slave system --- Slaveholding --- Thralldom --- Crimes against humanity --- Serfdom --- Slaveholders --- Slaves --- Enslaved persons

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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.

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"Outgrowth of papers presented at conference marking Columbus' quincentennial and centering around new societies formed as a result of culture contact. Essays focus on precolumbian peoples of the Lesser Antilles and their earliest encounters with Europeans; imperial rivalries and wars and their impact on settlement patterns; and local societies, slavery, trade, and abolition. Highly useful"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

Indians of the West Indies --- Slavery --- Regions & Countries - Americas --- History & Archaeology --- Latin America --- Abolition of slavery --- Antislavery --- Enslavement --- Mui tsai --- Ownership of slaves --- Servitude --- Slave keeping --- Slave system --- Slaveholding --- Thralldom --- Crimes against humanity --- Serfdom --- Slaveholders --- Slaves --- Indigenous peoples --- History --- Antilles, Lesser --- History. --- Caribbees --- Lesser Antilles --- West Indies --- Enslaved persons

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"Highly important scholarly treatment of Bahamian socioeconomic history in post-emancipation period. In addition to examining last phases of slavery in both rural and urban settings, looks at export economies of salt, cotton, pineapples, and sponges, and their roles in emergence of mercantile middle class. Concludes that partly because of flawed governmental policies, workers ended up in servitude and ultimately migrated to Miami"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

Slavery --- Plantation life --- Truck system --- Slaves --- Sociology & Social History --- Social Sciences --- Communities - Social Classes --- Enslaved persons --- Persons --- Labor laws and legislation --- Wages --- Country life --- Abolition of slavery --- Antislavery --- Enslavement --- Mui tsai --- Ownership of slaves --- Servitude --- Slave keeping --- Slave system --- Slaveholding --- Thralldom --- Crimes against humanity --- Serfdom --- Slaveholders --- History. --- Emancipation --- History --- Bahamas --- Bahama Islands --- Commonwealth of the Bahamas --- Bahamas, The --- The Bahamas --- バハマ --- Bahama --- Economic conditions. --- Economic conditions --- Slavery - Bahamas - History. --- Plantation life - Bahamas - History. --- Truck system - Bahamas - History. --- Slaves - Emancipation - Bahamas - History. --- Bahamas - Economic conditions.