Black Litigants in the Antebellum American South by Kimberly M. Welch HARDBACK

Black Litigants in the Antebellum American South\nby Kimberly M. Welch\nHardback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Kimberly M. Welch\nTitle: Black Litigants in the Antebellum American South\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Legal history\nPublisher: MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina\nPublication year: 2018\nISBN-13: 9781469636436\nISBN-10: 1469636433\nRRP: \u00A343.95\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nBased on new research conducted in courthouse basements and storage sheds in rural Mississippi and Louisiana, Kimberly Welch draws on over 1,000 examples of free and enslaved black litigants who used the courts to protect their interests and reconfigure their place in a tense society.\n\nBased on new research conducted in courthouse basements and storage sheds in rural Mississippi and Louisiana, K.