Slavery & the LawPaul Finkelman Madison House, 1997 - 465 pages |
Contents
Theories of Democracy and the Law of Slavery | 27 |
Ideology and Imagery in the Law of Slavery | 43 |
Slavery in the Canon of Constitutional Law | 89 |
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