ISBN
9781469636436
Price
$39.95
Publisher
University of North Carolina Press
Abstract
Kimberly Welch has written a superb book. In Black Litigants in the Antebellum American South, Welch invites her reader into the local courtrooms in the Natchez district of Mississippi and Louisiana to witness a version of the slave South that, until recently, few historians had bothered to tell, or perhaps had even imagined. It is a version that shows persons of color—free and enslaved—as litigators, as people using the law to actively protect their interests and shape their own destinies.
DOI
10.31390/cwbr.21.1.09
Recommended Citation
Gillmer, Jason A.
(2019)
"Black Litigants in the Antebellum American South,"
Civil War Book Review: Vol. 21
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Iss.
1
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DOI: 10.31390/cwbr.21.1.09
Available at:
https://repository.lsu.edu/cwbr/vol21/iss1/9
