Criminal injustice [electronic resource] : slaves and free Blacks in Georgia's criminal justice system / Glenn McNair.
Series: Carter G. Woodson Institute seriesPublication details: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2009.Description: xii, 234 pSubject(s):- Criminal justice, Administration of -- Georgia -- History -- 18th century
- Criminal justice, Administration of -- Georgia -- History -- 19th century
- Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- Georgia -- History
- African Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Georgia -- History -- 18th century
- African Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Georgia -- History -- 19th century
- Slaves -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Georgia -- History
- Free African Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Georgia -- History
- Crime and race -- Georgia -- History
- Georgia -- Race relations -- History -- 18th century
- Georgia -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century
- 364.9758089/96073 22
- HV9955.G4 M36 2009eb
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
"My Lord, they are stark mad after Negroes" : slavery and the corruption of Georgia's legal culture -- "For the better ordering and governing Negroes" : Blacks and the law -- "Negroes might cut the throats of our people" : Black crime and its causes -- "Some convenient method and form of tryal" : the trial process -- "The slave should look to his master and the courts to avenge his wrongs" : the appellate process -- "May the Lord have mercy on his soul" : punishment.
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