| Slavery and Crime in Missouri, 1773-1865 Contributor(s): Frazier, Harriet C. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0786443316 ISBN-13: 9780786443314 Publisher: McFarland and Company, Inc. OUR PRICE: $39.55 Product Type: Paperback Published: June 2011 Annotation: Slavery and its lasting effects have long been an issue in America, with the scars inflicted running deep. This study examines crimes such as stealing, burglary, arson, rape and murder committed against and by slaves, with most of the authors information coming from handwritten court records and newspapers. These documents show the death penalty rarely applied when a slave killed another slave, but that it always applied when a slave killed a white person. Despite Missouris grim criminal justice system, the states best lawyers were called upon to represent slaves in court on serious criminal charges, and federal law applied to all persons, granting slaves in Missouri protection that few other slave states had. By 1860, Missouris population was only 10 percent slave, the smallest percentage of any slave state in America. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Social Science | Criminology - History | United States - General |
| Dewey: 364.9 |
| Physical Information: 0.76" H x 6" W x 9" (1.09 lbs) 336 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American |
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| Publisher Description: Slavery and its lasting effects have long been an issue in America, with the scars running deep. This study examines crimes such as stealing, burglary, arson, rape and murder committed against and by slaves, with most of the author's information coming from handwritten court records and newspapers. These documents show the death penalty rarely applied when a slave killed another slave, but always applied when a slave killed a white person. Despite Missouri's grim criminal justice system, the state's best lawyers were called upon to represent slaves in court on serious criminal charges, and federal law applied to all persons, granting slaves in Missouri protection that few other slave states had. By 1860, Missouri's population was only 10 percent slave, the smallest percentage of any slave state in America. |