From treason to runaway slaves legal culture in new Republic trials, 1783-1808 / Linda Myrsiades.

Author/creator Myrsiades, Linda S.
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Publication InfoVancouver ; Madison, NJ : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2024]
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SeriesThe Fairleigh Dickinson University Press series in law, culture, and the humanities
Contents Trying military law : the Hazen-Reid feud and the case of Judge Advocate General Thomas Edwards, 1783 -- "The crooks of the law" : the trial of Mamachtaga, the Delaware Indian, 1785 -- "A fine peace of Land" : settlers' rights and land titles in George Washington v. James Scott, et al., 1786 -- "Whiskey boys" and the "Pole Gentry" : treason and the whiskey rebellion trials, 1795 -- Sangrado v. the Cloven Foot : the libel trial of Benjamin Rush v. William Cobbett, 1799 -- "I will a tale unfold" : the murder trial of John Joyce and Peter Matthias, 1808.
Abstract "From Treason to Runaway Slaves provides case studies of high-profile trials from the early Republic examined in terms of the period's history, law, and culture. It focuses on a historical period and place crucial to identity formation in the new nation and the survival of the U.S. as a democratic experiment"-- Provided by publisher.
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Issued in other formPrint version: Myrsiades, Linda S. From treason to runaway slaves Vancouver ; Madison, NJ : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, [2024] 9781683933847
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