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White women, black slaves and the law in early national Georgia : the Sunbury Petition of 1791
Verfasst von:
Wood, Betty
in:
Cambridge [u.a.]:
1992
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611 - 622 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Ariadne | Wien |
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| Verfasst von: | Wood, Betty |
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| Jahr: | 1992 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| In 1791, in one of the most remarkable documents penned in eighteenth-century Georgia, a group of white women petitioned for the life of a male mulatto slave who had been condemned to death not because of the offence he had committed but because of his reputation as a "villain". Although barely a page long, thge Sunbury Petition provides a fascinating statement of the racial attitudes, political consciousness and modus operandi of elite white women in early national Georgia. The women of Sunbury were articulating their understanding of the role and duties of women in the new republic. If necessary, those duties included correcting the civic behaviour of men | |
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