Title Race and the law in South Carolina : from slavery to Jim Crow / John William Wertheimer

Published Amherst, Massachusetts : Amherst College Press, [2023] ©2023

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 331 pages) Series Law, Literature & Culture ; 1 Summary This first title in the "Law, Literature & Culture" series uses six legal disputes from the South Carolina courts to illuminate the complex legal history of race in the U.S. South from slavery through Jim Crow. The first two cases--one criminal, one civil--both illuminate the extreme oppressiveness of slavery. The third explores labor relations between newly emancipated Black agricultural workers and white landowners during Reconstruction. The remaining cases investigate three prominent features of the Jim Crow system: segregated schools, racially biased juries, and lynching, respectively. Throughout the century under consideration, South Carolina's legal system obsessively drew racial lines, always to the detriment of non-white people, but it occasionally provided a public forum within which racial oppression could be challenged. The book emphasizes how dramatically the degree of legal oppressiveness experienced by Black South Carolinians varied during the century under study, based largely on the degree of Black access to political and legal power Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial 4.0 International License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 Description based on information from the publisher Subject Race discrimination -- Law and legislation -- South Carolina -- History African Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- South Carolina -- History Law -- Social aspects -- South Carolina -- History History / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) History. Law / Legal History. African Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc. Law -- Social aspects. Race discrimination -- Law and legislation. South Carolina. Genre/Form History. Form Electronic book Author Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), publisher. Amherst College. Press, publisher. ISBN 9781943208333 1943208336

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