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“judith schafer”

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  • Local Matters

    Race, Crime, and Justice in the Nineteenth-Century South

    by Ariela J. Gross, Judith Schafer, Laura F. Edwards, Lou Falkner Williams, Michael W. Fitzgerald, Sally E. Hadden, Timothy S. Huebner ...
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    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.Although each essay is anchored in the local, several ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • Louisiana

    A History

    by Light Townsend Cummins, Judith Kelleher Schafer, Edward F. Haas, Michael L. Kurtz ...
    Covering the lively, even raucous, history of Louisiana from before First Contact through the Elections of 2012, this sixth edition of the classic Louisiana history survey provides an engaging and comprehensive narrative of what is arguably America’s most colorful state.Since the appearance of the first edition of this classic text in 1984, Louisiana: A History has remained the best-loved and most ... Read more

    $38.00 USD

  • Slavery & the Law

    by Derrick Bell, Jonathan A. Bush, Jacob I. Corré, Michael Kent Curtis, William W. Fisher III, James Oliver Horton, Lois Horton, Thomas D. Morris, Thomas D. Russell, Judith Kelleher Schafer, Alan Watson, Ariela Gross, Sanford Levinson ...
    Central to the development of the American legal system, writes Professor Finkelman in Slavery & the Law, is the institution of slavery. It informs us not only about early concepts of race and property, but about the nature of American democracy itself.Prominent historians of slavery and legal scholars analyze the intricate relationship between slavery, race, and the law from the earliest Black ... Read more

    $129.59 USD

  • Sex in Old New Orleans

    Three Book Set

    by Emily Epstein Landau, Alecia P. Long, Judith Kelleher Schafer ...
    *** EBOOK EXCLUSIVE ***BOOK 1: Spectacular WickednessFrom 1897 to 1917 the red-light district of Storyville commercialized and even thrived on New Orleans's longstanding reputation for sin and sexual excess. This notorious neighborhood, located just outside of the French Quarter, hosted a diverse cast of characters who reflected the cultural milieu and complex social structure of turn-of-the ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Brothels, Depravity, and Abandoned Women

    Illegal Sex in Antebellum New Orleans

    by Judith Kelleher Schafer ...
    Winner of the 2009 Gulf South Historical Association Book AwardWhen a priest suggested to one of the first governors of Louisiana that he banish all disreputable women to raise the colony's moral tone, the governor responded, "If I send away all the loose females, there will be no women left here at all." Primitive, mosquito infested, and disease ridden, early French colonial New Orleans offered ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • Birthright Citizens

    A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America

    by Martha S. Jones ...
    Series series Studies in Legal History
    Before the Civil War, colonization schemes and black laws threatened to deport former slaves born in the United States. Birthright Citizens recovers the story of how African American activists remade national belonging through battles in legislatures, conventions, and courthouses. They faced formidable opposition, most notoriously from the US Supreme Court decision in Dred Scott. Still, Martha S. ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

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  • Help Me to Find My People

    The African American Search for Family Lost in Slavery

    by Heather Andrea Williams ...
    Series series The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture
    After the Civil War, African Americans placed poignant “information wanted” advertisements in newspapers, searching for missing family members. Inspired by the power of these ads, Heather Andrea Williams uses slave narratives, letters, interviews, public records, and diaries to guide readers back to devastating moments of family separation during slavery when people were sold away from parents, ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • Masterless Men

    Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South

    by Keri Leigh Merritt ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies on the American South
    Analyzing land policy, labor, and legal history, Keri Leigh Merritt reveals what happens to excess workers when a capitalist system is predicated on slave labor. With the rising global demand for cotton - and thus, slaves - in the 1840s and 1850s, the need for white laborers in the American South was drastically reduced, creating a large underclass who were unemployed or underemployed. These poor ... Read more

    $27.09 USD

  • Lincoln

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Allen C. Guelzo ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Beneath the surface of the apparently untutored and deceptively frank Abraham Lincoln ran private tunnels of self-taught study, a restless philosophical curiosity, and a profound grasp of the fundamentals of democracy. Now, in Lincoln: A Very Short Introduction, the award-winning Lincoln authority Allen C. Guelzo offers a penetrating look into the mind of one of our greatest presidents. If Lincoln ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • Reconstruction

    A Concise History

    by Allen C. Guelzo ...
    The era known as Reconstruction is one of the unhappiest times in American history. It succeeded in reuniting the nation politically after the Civil War but in little else. Conflict shifted from the battlefield to the Capitol as Congress warred with President Andrew Johnson over just what to do with the South. Johnson's plan of Presidential Reconstruction, which was sympathetic to the former ... Read more

    $13.29 USD

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  • The Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case

    Race, Law, and Justice in the Reconstruction Era

    by Michael A. Ross ...
    In June 1870, the residents of the city of New Orleans were already on edge when two African American women kidnapped seventeen-month-old Mollie Digby from in front of her New Orleans home. It was the height of Radical Reconstruction, and the old racial order had been turned upside down: black men now voted, held office, sat on juries, and served as policemen. Nervous white residents, certain that ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • The Family Tree

    A Lynching in Georgia, a Legacy of Secrets, and My Search for the Truth

    by Karen Branan ...
    In the tradition of Slaves in the Family, the provocative true account of the hanging of four black people by a white lynch mob in 1912—written by the great-granddaughter of the sheriff charged with protecting them.Harris County, Georgia, 1912. A white man, the beloved nephew of the county sheriff, is shot dead on the porch of a black woman. Days later, the sheriff sanctions the lynching of a ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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