Black Laws of Virginia
Author : June Purcell Guild
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Page : 266 pages
File Size : 29,63 MB
Release : 1936
Category : African Americans
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Author : June Purcell Guild
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Page : 266 pages
File Size : 29,63 MB
Release : 1936
Category : African Americans
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Author : Peter Wallenstein
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 50,19 MB
Release : 2013-02-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0813924871
Women were once excluded everywhere from the legal profession, but by the 1990s the Virginia Supreme Court had three women among its seven justices. This is just one example of how law in Virginia has been transformed over the past century, as it has across the South and throughout the nation. In Blue Laws and Black Codes, Peter Wallenstein shows that laws were often changed not through legislative action or constitutional amendment but by citizens taking cases to state and federal courtrooms. Due largely to court rulings, for example, stores in Virginia are no longer required by "blue laws" to close on Sundays. Particularly notable was the abolition of segregation laws, modified versions of southern states’ "black codes" dating back to the era of slavery and the first years after emancipation. Virginia’s long road to racial equality under the law included the efforts of black civil rights lawyers to end racial discrimination in the public schools, the 1960 Richmond sit-ins, a case against segregated courtrooms, and a court challenge to a law that could imprison or exile an interracial couple for their marriage. While emphasizing a single state, Blue Laws and Black Codes is framed in regional and national contexts. Regarding blue laws, Virginia resembled most American states. Regarding racial policy, Virginia was distinctly southern. Wallenstein shows how people pushed for changes in the laws under which they live, love, work, vote, study, and shop—in Virginia, the South, and the nation.
Author : Philip J. Schwarz
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 18,99 MB
Release : 2010-05-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 0820335169
The five essays in Slave Laws in Virginia explore two centuries of the ever-changing relationship between a major slave society and the laws that guided it. The topics covered are diverse, including the African judicial background of African American slaves, Thomas Jefferson's relationship with the laws of slavery, the capital punishment of slaves, nineteenth-century penal transportation of slaves from Virginia as related to the interstate slave trade and the changing market for slaves, and Virginia's experience with its own fugitive slave laws. Through the history of one large extended family of ex-slaves, Philip J. Schwarz's conclusion examines how the law shaped the interaction between former slaves and masters after emancipation. Instead of relying on a static view of these two centuries, the author focuses on the diverse and changing ways that lawmakers and law enforcers responded to slaves' behavior and to whites' perceptions of and assumptions about that behavior.
Author : June Purcell Guild
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Page : 249 pages
File Size : 45,82 MB
Release : 1969
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Author : June Purcell Guild
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Page : 249 pages
File Size : 27,24 MB
Release : 1996
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Page : 249 pages
File Size : 41,18 MB
Release : 1969
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Author : Martha Hill
Publisher :
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 40,34 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Free blacks
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Author : Guild
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Page : pages
File Size : 43,69 MB
Release : 1969
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Author : Alejandro de la Fuente
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 11,20 MB
Release : 2020-01-16
Category : History
ISBN : 1108480640
Shows that the law of freedom, not slavery, determined the way that race developed over time in three slave societies.
Author : Virginia
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Page : pages
File Size : 45,72 MB
Release : 1819
Category : Law
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