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26 Jan 2018, 7:41 am by Zietlow, Rebecca E.
  Above all, slaves were denied the right to free contracts. [read post]
22 Jun 2017, 3:51 pm by Dan
Sharp become interested in ending slavery when he met Jonathon Slave, a slave who had been badly beaten by his master. [read post]
29 Dec 2009, 5:19 pm by Lawrence Solum
Paradoxically, limited liability was achieved by extending the liability of the master to include assets managed by the slave (the peculium), in contrast with an earlier principle that the slave owner was not responsible for transactions by his slave. [read post]
30 Aug 2012, 2:16 pm by Anders Walker
  One of her most arresting examples is the case of Jesse Ruffin, a slave who leaves his plantation for days on end, makes his own money, buys liquor, and visits friends – all in violation of both his master’s wishes and written law. [read post]
23 Jan 2023, 7:30 am by Guest Blogger
Yet, as we all know, this progress was stopped in its tracks. [read post]
20 May 2014, 6:29 pm
The legal treatment of slaves wavered, however, because the legally abstract right of property, in ordinary cases, was absolute, and there could thus be no duties between a master and a slave who lacked legal personhood. [read post]
31 Jan 2012, 1:45 pm by Kevin
The letter starts like this: Dayton, OhioAugust 7, 1865To My Old Master, Colonel P.H. [read post]
24 Mar 2020, 1:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
And all children born of any negro or other slave shall be slaves as their fathers were for the term of their lives. [read post]
17 Dec 2011, 7:30 am by Ilya Somin
Slaves were treated as equals, allowed to wear their masters’ clothing, and be waited on at meal time in remembrance of an earlier golden age thought to have been ushered in by the god. [read post]
8 Jul 2011, 7:00 am by Beyond Intractability
The master is here enslaved and the slave is master. [read post]
25 Mar 2012, 10:47 am by Alfred Brophy
[T]hese slight indulgencies are repaid by the attachment of the slave to the master and his family, by exerting his industry and honesty, and a spirit to make and save for the master as well as for himself. [read post]
19 Oct 2010, 6:32 am by Mike
 Like all slave masters, banks and large corporations issue proclamations based on threats rather than explanations based on reason. [read post]
9 Feb 2015, 4:49 am
All men have gone through this, go through it, each according to his degree, throughout their lives. [read post]
25 Oct 2015, 12:30 am by Emily Prifogle
"Barbara Krauthamer's Black Slaves, Indian Masters: Slavery, Emancipation, and Citizenship in the Native American South (UNC Press) is another book reviewed on H-Net. [read post]
13 Aug 2018, 6:30 am by Dan Ernst
Negro Cloth: Mastering the Market for Slave Clothing in Antebellum AmericaSETH ROCKMAN7. [read post]
29 Jul 2013, 9:45 am by Janet Halley
Hendrik Hartog, Someday All This Will Be Yours: A History of Inheritance and Old Age (Harvard University Press 2012). [read post]