>>> Item number 571, dated 94/04/09 08:26:18 -- ALL
Date: Sat, 9 Apr 1994 08:26:18 -0500 Reply-To: Legal History discussion list <H-LAW@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: Legal History discussion list <H-LAW@UICVM.BITNET> From: cfcrw@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu Subject: Slave patrol laws
From: Chris Suggs <JCSJJ@CUNYVM>
Could you help a student of mine investigate the historical changes in antebellum legislation controlling "slave patrollers"?
>>> Item number 573, dated 94/04/09 12:38:31 -- ALL
Date: Sat, 9 Apr 1994 12:38:31 -0500 Reply-To: Legal History discussion list <H-LAW@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: Legal History discussion list <H-LAW@UICVM.BITNET> From: cfcrw@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu Subject: Re: Slave patrol laws
> Subject: Slave patrol laws
>
> From: Chris Suggs <JCSJJ@CUNYVM>
>
> Could you help a student of mine investigate the historical changes in
> antebellum legislation controlling "slave patrollers"?
The Virginia Historical Society just closed an exhibit on slave escapes from Virginia. It contained documentary material on patrollers. Telephone Lee E. Shepard, Senior Archivist at (804) 358- 4901 or write to him at the Society, P.O. Box 7311, Richmond, VA 23221-0311. Judge Higginbotham makes passing reference to rewards and who might collect them for the return of runaways in IN THE MATTER OF COLOR, Race & the American Legal Process: The Colonial Period. His nephew is collaborating on a sequel. You can reach Professor E. Michael Higginbotham at Univ. of Baltimore School of Law, [easlmike@ube.ub.umd.edu]. In Prigg v.Pensylvania, the Supreme Court of the United States considered whether Art. IV, Sect. 2, para. 3, permitted interference by Pennsylvania authorities with the attempted forcible removal of a negro to Maryland by a slave chaser sent to retrieve a runaway. Look also at Robert Cover's JUSTICE ACCUSED.
I'd be pleased to see the paper when its done.
John Paul Jones
School of Law
University of Richmond
Richmond, VA 23173
Jones@UofRLaw.URich.edu
>>> Item number 574, dated 94/04/09 19:57:53 -- ALL
Date: Sat, 9 Apr 1994 19:57:53 -0500 Reply-To: Legal History discussion list <H-LAW@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: Legal History discussion list <H-LAW@UICVM.BITNET> From: cfcrw@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu Subject: Slave Patrol Laws
In response to the query of Chris Suggs (JCSJJ@CUNYVM) seeking information on changes in ante-bellum legislation concerning slave patrollers, I can offer the fragment that there was an excellent paper on slave patrollers presented at a meeting of the ASLH a few years ago by a graduate student, I believe from Harvard. Doubtless other listmembers who were there (I seem to recall that this was in Atlanta), or who have access to old programs, can fill in the details.
Eric M. Freedman
Hofstra Law School
LAWEMF@Hofstra.edu
>>> Item number 578, dated 94/04/12 12:14:46 -- ALL
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 1994 12:14:46 -0500 Reply-To: Legal History discussion list <H-LAW@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: Legal History discussion list <H-LAW@UICVM.BITNET> From: cfcrw@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu Subject: Slave Patrol
From: M Landon <HSLANDON@UMSVM>
The paper Eric Freedman refers to was given by Sally Hadden at the 1991 ASLH Meeting in San Francisco. It was entitled: "Slave Patrols in North Carolina: Personnel, Practices, and paragmatism." Ms Hadden is now a member of the History faculty at the University of Toedo, Toledo, OH, 43606. Tel: 419-537-2845; FAX:419-537-4940.
Michael Landon
Sec'y-Treas., ASLH
<hslandon@vm.cc.olemiss.edu>
This message was originally submitted by TRUSSELL@MSMAIL.LAW.UTEXAS.EDU.
Eric Freedman recalled an ASLH paper about slave patrols but could not remember the name of the presenter.
The paper was by Sally Hadden, now an assistant professor at the University of Toledo.
Tom Russell
trussell@msmail.law.utexas.edu
>>> Item number 585, dated 94/04/18 20:38:33 -- ALL
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 1994 20:38:33 -0500 Reply-To: Legal History discussion list <H-LAW@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: Legal History discussion list <H-LAW@UICVM.BITNET> From: cfcrw@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu Subject: Re: Slave Patrol
Thanks to everybody who answered on Slave Patrols. Any other will be appreciated.
I have a second request. For academic year 1994-95, I'll be a scholarin -residence at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. I'll be working on a book treating the relationships between African-American literature and American law. List-members with info or thoughts in this area, particularly in 19th c. matters might contact me on the list or privately. Chris Suggs, jcsjj@cunyvm.cuny.edu.
>>> Item number 590, dated 94/04/19 09:59:13 -- ALL
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 1994 09:59:13 -0500 Reply-To: Legal History discussion list <H-LAW@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: Legal History discussion list <H-LAW@UICVM.BITNET> From: cfcrw@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu Subject: Re: Slave Patrol
Chris - You probably already know this book but Black and White
Strangers, an examination of the late nineteenth century
American canon in terms of race and racism is terrific, though not
directly law-related. It speaks most interestingly to questions
of the absence of an African- American presence in much post-Civil
War fiction by whites. I am now blanking on the name of the author,
but it ought to be easily accessed.
Louise Halper
lah@wlu.edu
> >
> > I have a second request. For academic year 1994-95, I'll be a scholar-
> > in-residence at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. I'll
> > be working on a book treating the relationships between African-American
> > literature and American law. List-members with info or thoughts in this
> > area, particularly in 19th c. matters might contact me on the list or
> > privately. Chris Suggs, jcsjj@cunyvm.cuny.edu.
> >
>