Local Matters: Race, Crime, and Justice in the Nineteenth-Century South (Studies in the Legal History of the South)

by Christopher Waldrep (Editor)

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  Paperback
  2011

  $36.43

  Much of the current reassessment of race, culture, and criminal justice in the nineteenth-century South has been based on intensive community studies. Drawing on previously untapped sources, the nine original papers collected here represent some of the best new work on how racial justice can be shaped by the particulars of time and place.