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The origins of African-American interests in international law
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- Creator
- Henry J. Richardson, III
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Durham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press, [2008]
- ©2008
- Physical Details
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- xlii, 501 pages ; 27 cm
- ISBNs
- 1594603839, 9781594603839
- OCLC
- ocn148927569
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Early historical trends -- The twenty are brought to Jamestown -- The twenty, and Blacks in pre-revolutionary New York : invoking "outside law" -- Claims to outside law : hemispheric slave revolts, maroons, and the Republic of Palmares -- Natural law, international law, Jamestown and the twenty -- Contemporaneous international legal process and African claims and rights -- Lancaster Hill's petition at the beginning of the American Revolution -- International law and Lancaster Hill's claim, through the American Revolution -- African-American interests in the drafting of the international law-related language of the U.S. Constitution -- Additional international law provisions of the Constitution : the continuation of the fictional narrative -- Drafting the final constitutional provisions under the Black fictional narrative -- African-American claims to outside and international law, 1790-1810 : Black institution building, federal court cases, and James Wilson's jurisprudence -- African-American claims to international and outside law, 1790-1810 : property clauses, fugitive slave laws, the international slave trade, and Prosser's rebellion -- Black claims to outside law and international law interests in Louisiana Territory, 1750-1814 -- The War of 1812 : Black claims to outside law relative to this war and its settlement -- The birth of African-American international jurisprudence