Bonds Of Empire: The English Origins Of Slave Law In South Carolina And British Plantation America, 1660Â1783 (Cambridge Historical Studies In American Law And Society)
Bonds Of Empire: The English Origins Of Slave Law In South Carolina And British Plantation America, 1660Â1783 (Cambridge Historical Studies In American Law And Society)
Bonds of Empire reveals how English law facilitated the expansion of slavery in British America. Moving beyond an examination of criminal law, the book suggests that plantation slavery and the laws that governed it were not beyond the pale of English imperial legal history.