Add to ORKGWhy did the judges of New Brunswick's Supreme Court twice (1800, 1805) uphold the lawfulness of Negro slavery when they might, without unconvenience, have abolished it? Why did they deliberately reject the impulse towards abolition that had triumphed throughout the rest of the North Atlantic world? This paper addresses these issues in the context of the general legal debate on slavery in Loyalist New Brunswick.En 1800-1805, les juges de la Cour Suprême du Nouveau-Brunsunck ont affirmé la légalité sur l'esclavage des noirs lorsqu'ils auraient pu sans inconvénient l'abolir. Pourquoi ont-ils intentionnellement rejette' l’abolition qui a triomphé à travers le reste du monde Nord-Atlantique. Dans un contexte général du débat légal, le papier s'a...
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Slavery was justified in 18th century Europe on biblical and philosophical grounds, and the British ...
Only a few decades ago, it was possible to write accounts of the culture or economy of the antebellu...
This paper argues that the writings of abolitionist Samuel Ringgold Ward and other anti-slavery grou...
What were the consequences of creating jurisdictions against the transatlantic slave trade in the ni...
An advertisement for a “Negro man and boy” and “a variety of other articles too tedious to mention” ...
This chapter examines arguments about the transition from slavery in the period c.1790 and 1833 in r...
In the mainland British American colonies, slavery as an institution evolved throughout the seventee...
The four articles in this special issue experiment with an innovative set of questions and a variety...
This paper turns on the main plans of emancipating the slaves in the French colonies which appeared ...
Nova Scotia was the only colony in the transatlantic world to possess no statute laws or slave codes...
This article closely examines the ways in which masters and slaves struggled to define slavery in th...
The dominant national narrative for Canadians today is that Canada was an antislavery haven for form...
What were the consequences of creating jurisdictions against the transatlantic slave trade in the ni...
In the years preceding the Civil War, two North Carolina Supreme Court Justices, Chief Justice Thoma...
BAPTISTE V. DE VOLUNBRUN 5 H. & J. 86 (Md. 1820): In Jean Baptiste’s 1820 freedom petition we have n...
Slavery was justified in 18th century Europe on biblical and philosophical grounds, and the British ...
Only a few decades ago, it was possible to write accounts of the culture or economy of the antebellu...
This paper argues that the writings of abolitionist Samuel Ringgold Ward and other anti-slavery grou...
What were the consequences of creating jurisdictions against the transatlantic slave trade in the ni...
An advertisement for a “Negro man and boy” and “a variety of other articles too tedious to mention” ...
This chapter examines arguments about the transition from slavery in the period c.1790 and 1833 in r...
In the mainland British American colonies, slavery as an institution evolved throughout the seventee...
The four articles in this special issue experiment with an innovative set of questions and a variety...