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"A Degraded Caste of Society does a remarkable job of taking a seemingly narrow dimension of the law and race relations to reveal a much broader argument about the antebellum South."" - Mark Tushnet author of The constitution of the United States of America : A Contextual Analysis"

A Degraded Caste of Society does a remarkable job of taking a seemingly narrow dimension of the law and race relations to reveal a much broader argument about the antebellum South. -- Mark Tushnet * author of The Constitution of the United States of America: A Contextual Analysis * Andrew T. Fede offers a wealth of valuable research regarding how slavery shaped American law in practice. -- Jeannine Marie DeLombard * author of In the Shadow of the Gallows: Race, Crime, and American Civic Identity * This compelling account traces the modern-day legitimization of racial violence to its foundation in antebellum law; Andrew Fede brilliantly demonstrates that the arc of slavery is indeed long. -- Jenny Bourne Wahl * author of The Bondsman’s Burden: An Economic Analysis of the Common Law of Southern Slavery * Academic audiences will appreciate this scholarly overview. -- Harry Charles * Library Journal *

"A Degraded Caste of Society does a remarkable job of taking a seemingly narrow dimension of the law and race relations to reveal a much broader argument about the antebellum South.--Mark Tushnet ""author of The constitution of the United States of America: A Contextual Analysis"""

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ANDREW T. FEDE is of counsel to the law firm Archer & Greiner, P.C., based in New Jersey, and, since 1986, has been an adjunct professor teaching law courses at Montclair State University. He is the author of Homicide Justified: The Legality of Killing Slaves in the United Statesand the Atlantic World, Roadblocks to Freedom: Slavery and Manumission in the United States South, and People without Rights: An Interpretation of the Fundamentals of the Law of Slavery in the U.S. South.

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