In the Matter of Color: Race and the American Legal Process the Colonial Period (SIGNED COPY)

Higginbotham, A. Leon, Jr.

ISBN 10: 0195023870 / ISBN 13: 9780195023879

Published by Oxford University Press, NY, 1978

About this Item

Hardcover in a worn and chipped dust jacket with a bar code sticker on rear panel. INSCRIBED TO TV TALK SHOW HOST DICK CAVETT BY AUTHOR on front fly leaf: "To Dick Cavett with appreciation for your steady excellence and thoughtful commentary -with regards and highest esteem - A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr./June 30, 1978". Focusing on the actions and attitudes of the courts, legislatures, and public servants in six colonies, Judge Higginbotham shows ways in which the law has contributed to injustices suffered by Black Americans Judge Higginbotham chronicles in unrelenting detail the role of the law in the enslavement and subjugation of black Americans during the colonial period. 512 pages, b&w illustrations. No markings. Record # 379117.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: In the Matter of Color: Race and the American Legal Process the Colonial Period (SIGNED COPY)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, NY
• Publication Date: 1978
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0195023870
• ISBN 13: 9780195023879
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

About this title

Synopsis

Focusing on the actions and attitudes of the courts, legislatures, and public servants in six colonies, Judge Higginbotham shows ways in which the law has contributed to injustices suffered by Black Americans

About the Author

A. Leon Higginbotham is at Justice with the United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.