Author: John LunanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jamaica
Languages : en
Pages : 228
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An Abstract of the Laws of Jamaica Relating to Slaves
An Abstract of the Laws of Jamaica Relating to Slaves (From 33 Charles II. To 59 George III. Inclusive)
Author: John LunanPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780331761207
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Excerpt from An Abstract of the Laws of Jamaica Relating to Slaves (From 33 Charles II. To 59 George III. Inclusive): With the Slave Law at Length; Also, an Appendix, Containing an Abstract of the Acts of Parliament Relating to the Abolition of the Slave-Trade Among the many important amendment; which have been introduced into the slave act, a facility is afforded to testamentary ma; -numissions, by dispensing with'the solemni ties under which the disposition of slaves is required to be made, and declaring that a will which would be valid to.;pass personal estate shall be sufficient for the purpose of conferring freedom. 'on the death of the testay gztor, without waiting until the executor has either made adee'd of manumission, or grant ed the bond required, to be given to the pa Tishfor his maintenance, the slave becomes free, and the estate of the testator is charged Jwith it. The freedom of t'he party is thus established at once, without depending as fore -merly ongthe caprice or negligence of heirs sor executors in signing the necessary papers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
An abstract of the laws of Jamaica relating to slaves
Author: John LunanAn Abstract of the Laws of Jamaica Relating to Slaves. (from 33 Charles II. [1681] to 59 George III. Inclusive [1818]
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Author: John LunanPublisher: Palala Press
ISBN: 9781356908738
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
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Slave Law of Jamaica
Author: JamaicaSlave Law of Jamaica, with Proceedings and Documents Relative Thereto
Author: Slave Law of Jamaica
Author: JamaicaPublisher: Nabu Press
ISBN: 9781294387763
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
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Slave Law and the Politics of Resistance in the Early Atlantic World
Author: Edward B. RugemerPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674982991
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
Edward Rugemer’s comparative history, spanning 200 years, reveals the political dynamic between slaves’ resistance and slaveholders’ power in two prosperous slave economies: Jamaica and South Carolina. This struggle led to the abolition of slavery through a law of British Parliament in one case and through violent civil war in the other.
Homicide Justified
Author: Andrew FedePublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820351121
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
This comparative study looks at the laws concerning the murder of slaves by their masters and at how these laws were implemented. Andrew T. Fede cites a wide range of cases--across time, place, and circumstance--to illuminate legal, judicial, and other complexities surrounding this regrettably common occurrence. These laws had evolved to limit in different ways the masters' rights to severely punish and even kill their slaves while protecting valuable enslaved people, understood as "property," from wanton destruction by hirers, overseers, and poor whites who did not own slaves. To explore the conflicts of masters' rights with state and colonial laws, Fede shows how slave homicide law evolved and was enforced not only in the United States but also in ancient Roman, Visigoth, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and British jurisdictions. His comparative approach reveals how legal reforms regarding slave homicide in antebellum times, like past reforms dictated by emperors and kings, were the products of changing perceptions of the interests of the public; of the individual slave owners; and of the slave owners' families, heirs, and creditors. Although some slave murders came to be regarded as capital offenses, the laws con-sistently reinforced the second-class status of slaves. This influence, Fede concludes, flowed over into the application of law to free African Americans and would even make itself felt in the legal attitudes that underlay the Jim Crow era.
The Population of Jamaica
Author: George W. RobertsPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107623421
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
Originally published in 1957, this book assesses the impact of population growth on the island of Jamaica.