1st Edition
Tracing British West Indian Slavery Laws A Comparative Analysis of Legal Transplants
By Justine K. Collins
Copyright 2022
212 Pages
by
Routledge
212 Pages
by
Routledge
212 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book provides a legal historical insight into colonial laws on enslavement and the plantation system in the British West Indies.
The volume is a work of comparative legal history of the English-speaking Caribbean which concentrates on how the laws of England served to catalyse the slavery laws and also legislation pertaining to post-emancipation societies. The book illustrates how these... Read more
Introduction.
Chapter 1: The origins of legal transplantation in the British West Indies, 1500s-1700s.
Chapter 2: The origins of slave laws within the British West Indies 1600s.
Chapter 3: The comprehensive slave codes of the British West Indies and their reverberations, 1660s-1700s.
Chapter 4: The tole of legal transplantation within manumission law and other ameliorative measures.
Chapter 5: Legal transplantation within post-emancipatory British West Indies, 1830s-1870s.
Conclusion.
Biography
Dr Justine K. Collins is an independent researcher.
