The People and Their Peace: Legal Culture and the Transformation of Inequality in the Post-Revolutionary South

by Laura F. Edwards

Book Overview

In the half-century following the Revolutionary War, the logic of inequality underwent a profound transformation within the southern legal system. Drawing on extensive archival research in North and South Carolina, Laura F. Edwards illuminates those changes by revealing the importance of localized legal practice.

Edwards shows that following the Revolution, the intensely local legal system favored maintaining the "peace," a concept intended...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080785932X
• ISBN13: 9780807859322
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"