Slavery & the law / edited by Paul Finkelman.

Learning the three "I"s of America's slave heritage / Derrick Bell -- Ideology and imagery in the law of slavery / William W. Fisher III -- Slavery in the canon of constitutional law / Sanford Levinson -- Chief Justice Hornblower of New Jersey and the Fugitive Slave Law of 1793 / Paul Finkelman -- Federal assault / James Oliver Horton and Lois E. Horton -- Crisis over the impending crisis / Michael Kent Curtis -- Slaves and the rules of evidence in criminal trials / Thomas D. Morris -- Details are of a most revolting character / Judith Kelleher Schafer -- Pandora's box / Ariela Gross -- Slave auctions on the courthouse steps / Thomas D. Russell -- Seventeenth-century jurists, Roman law, and slavery / Alan Watson -- British constitution and the creation of American slavery / Jonathan A. Bush -- Thinking property at Rome / Alan Watson -- Thinking property at Memphis / Jacob I. Corré

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In this book, prominent historians of slavery and legal scholars analyze the intricate relationship between slavery, race, and the law from the earliest Black Codes in colonial America to the passage of the Fugitive Slave Law and the Dred Scott decision prior to the Civil War. Slavery & the Law's wide-ranging essays focus on comparative slave law, auctioneering practices, rules of evidence, and property rights, as well as issues of criminality, punishment, and constitutional law.

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