A Peculiar Humanism: The Judicial Advocacy of Slavery in High Courts of the Old South 1820-1850

A Peculiar Humanism: The Judicial Advocacy of Slavery in High Courts of the Old South 1820-1850

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Author/Contributor(s): Wiethoff, William E
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Date: 06/01/2010
Binding: Paperback
Condition: NEW
In A Peculiar Humanism, William E. Wiethoff assesses the judicial use of oratory in reviewing slave cases and the struggle to fashion a humanist jurisprudence on slavery despite the customary restraints placed on judicial advocacy.