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Date:         Fri, 24 Sep 1993 17:52:23 CDT
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Subject:      Slavery Law

Do you know of a canonical case where an antebellum Southern court discussed whether a black slave, himself property, could legally own property?

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Date:         Fri, 24 Sep 1993 20:10:37 CDT
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Subject:      Slavery

Subscribers: Sorry to repost this, but I let it slip by without adding the sender's name and address. I hope I don't forget again, but please help me out by putting your name and address on postings for H-Law.

From: "Richard Ross" <richard_ross@law.uchicago.edu>

Do you know of a canonical case where an antebellum Southern court discussed whether a black slave, himself property, could legally own property?

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Date:         Tue, 10 Jan 1995 18:14:48 -0600
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From:         Chris Waldrep <cfcrw@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu>
Subject:      New Book on Louisiana Slave Law

LSU Press offers a new book on Louisiana slave law:

Judieth Kelleher Schafer. *Slavery, the Civil Law, and the Supreme Court of Louisiana* Baton Rouge and London: 1994.

>From the jacket:

Constituting what may be the most impressive research to date of state supreme court records, *Slavery, the Civil Law, and the Supreme Court of Louisiana* analyzes the evolution of Louisiana's slave laws from the territorial period to the Civil War. Over the course of four years, Judith Kelleher Schafer examined the original handwritten decisions (only recently made available) of the Louisiana Supreme Court, scrutinizing 1,200 appeals involving slaves as plaintiffs, defendants, or objects in lawsuits or criminal actions. The result is the first book-length study of those manuscripts and the first study of any state's slave law and its courts to use original case records from the entire antebellum era.

Table of Contents

1. "Slaves Are Regarded as Persons and Property": Sources of Slave Law in American Louisiana
2. "Details Are of a Most Revolting Character": Cruelty to Slaves and Legal Intervention
3. "No Proceedings...Shall Be Annulled or Impeded by Any Error of Form": The Treatment of Slaves Accused of Crimes
4. "The Slave Who Absconds Steals Himself": Slave Stealers and Fugitive Slaves
5. "Guaranteed Against Vices and Maladies Prescribed by Law": Warranties in Slave Sales
6. "Marked in a Manner Unusual Amongst Civilized People": The Foreign and Domestic Slave Trade in Louisiana
7. "Open and Notorious Concubinage": The Emancipation of Slave Mistresses by Will
8. "Letting Loose in Our Midst...Persons of Color": Further Difficulties in Freeing Slaves by Will
9. "An Emancipation, Once Perfected, is Irrevocable": Suits for Freedom
10. "As She Was a Free Woman There, She Must be Held So Every Where": Comity, Conflict of Laws, and Suits for Freedom

11, "To Cling to the Desperate Fortunes of the Confederacy": Appeals Concerning Slavery Heard After the Civil War