In the Matter of Color: Race & The American legal Process...
Higginbotham Jr., A. Leon. In the Matter of Color: Race & The American Legal Process. The Colonial Period. New Yor: Oxford Univeristy Press, 1978. xxiii, 512 pp. Softcover. Moderate shelfwear. Some underlining internally. A good copy. $20. * While many historians look at slavery through a social or economic lens, Higginbotham approaches it as a legal architect. He meticulously deconstructs how the American legal system was used to build a "wall of separation" between the rights of white people and the status of Black people during the colonial era. The book is structured by looking at how different colonies approached the "matter of color."
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