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Tracing British West Indian slavery laws : a comparative analysis of legal transplants / Justine K Collins.

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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...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Main Author: Collins, Justine K. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon [UK] ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.
Series:Routledge studies in comparative legal history.
Subjects:
Slavery > Law and legislation > West Indies, British > History.
Enslaved persons > West Indies, British > History.
Slavery > Law and legislation.
Enslaved persons.
West Indies > British West Indies.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • The origins of legal transplantation in the British West Indies, 1500-1700s
  • The origins of slave laws within the British West Indies, 1600s
  • The comprehensive slave codes of the British West Indies and their reverberations, 1660-1700s
  • The role of legal transplantation within Manumission law and other ameliorative measures
  • Legal transplantation within post emancipatory British West Indies, 1830s-1870s.

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