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The Black Laws: Race and the Legal Process in Early Ohio
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The Black Laws: Race and the Legal Process in Early Ohio Hardcover - 2005 - 1st Edition

by Stephen Middleton


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Beginning in 1803, the Ohio legislature enacted what came to be known as the Black Laws. These laws instituted barriers against blacks entering the state and placed limits on black testimony against whites. Basing his narrative on massive primary research, often utilizing previously unexplored sources, Stephen Middleton tells the story of racial oppression in Ohio and recounts chilling episodes of how blacks asserted their freedom by challenging the restrictions in the racial codes until the state legislature repealed some pernicious features in 1849 and finally abolished them in 1886. The fastest-growing state in antebellum America and the destination of whites from the North and the South, Ohio also became the destination for thousands of southern blacks, both free and runaway. Thus, nineteenth-century Ohio became a legal battleground for two powerful and far-reaching impulses in the history of race and law in America. One was the use of state power to further racial discrimination, and the other was the thirst of African Americans and their white allies for equality under the law for all Americans. Written in a clear and compelling style, this pathbreaking study will be required reading for historians, legal scholars, students, and those interested in the struggle for civil rights in America.

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  • Title The Black Laws: Race and the Legal Process in Early Ohio
  • Author Stephen Middleton
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 384
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Ohio University Press
  • Date 2005-12
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780821416235 / 0821416235
  • Weight 1.41 lbs (0.64 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.3 x 6.46 x 1.11 in (23.62 x 16.41 x 2.82 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 19th Century
    • Cultural Region: Midwest
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
    • Geographic Orientation: Ohio
  • Library of Congress subjects African Americans - Legal status, laws, etc, Race discrimination - Law and legislation -
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2005024836
  • Dewey Decimal Code 342.730

About the author

Stephen Middleton is a professor of constitutional history at North Carolina State University. He is the author of Ohio and the Antislavery Activities of Salmon P. Chase, The Black Laws in the Old Northwest: A Documentary History, and Black Congressmen during Reconstruction: A Documentary Sourcebook.
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