LIBROS DEL AUTOR: judith kelleher schafer

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  • Brothels, Depravity, and Abandoned Women
    Judith Kelleher Schafer
    Winner of the 2009 Gulf South Historical Association Book AwardWhen a priest suggested to one of the first governors of Louisiana that he banish all disreputable women to raise the colony's moral tone, the governor responded, "If I send away all the loose females, there will be no women left here at all." Primitive, mosquito infested, and disease ridden, early French coloni...
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    44,62 €

  • Becoming Free, Remaining Free
    Judith Kelleher Schafer
    For more than 150 years, the tales of hundreds of slaves and free people of color who used the judicial system to negotiate their freedom lay buried deep within the dusty records of the New Orleans district courts. Then Judith Kelleher Schafer spent fourteen years poring over Minute Books and trial transcripts, uncovering for the first time the details of these fascinating case...
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    38,15 €

  • Slavery, the Civil Law, and the Supreme Court of Louisiana (Revised)
    Judith Kelleher Schafer
    Constituting what may be the most impressive research to date of state supreme court records, Slavery, the Civil Law, and the Supreme Court of Louisiana analyzes the evolution of Louisiana's slave laws from the territorial period to the Civil War. Over the course of four years, Judith Kelleher Schafer examined the original handwritten decisions (only recently made available...
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    50,36 €