This Practice Against Law: Cuban Slave Trade Cases in the Southern District of New York 1839-1841 - Couverture rigide

Gordan III, John D

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1616195452 ISBN 13 : 9781616195458

Editeur : Lawbook Exchange, Ltd., 2017

Synopsis

Gordan's research shines a new light on the legal tale of 19^th century American ships covertly intended for the Cuban-African slave trade. "This Practice Against Law" reconstructs the little-known story of the Butterfly and the Catharine, two slave ships from Havana seized by the British Navy off the African coast in 1839. These ships were tendered to the federal government for forfeiture proceedings and their captains prosecuted in the Southern District of New York and the Supreme Court of the United States. At the same time Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney conducted proceedings against the Catharine's builders in the Circuit Court in Baltimore. Based on the original case files in the National Archives and British Parliamentary publications, this in-depth review refutes the criticism of the federal judiciary in the prior scholarly assessment of these cases and demonstrates that in fact the performance of the federal judges compares favorably with other branches of the American government. xv, 117 pp. 18 illustrations.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

JOHN D. GORDAN, III, a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, clerked for the Honorable Inzer B. Wyatt, U.S. District Judge (S.D.N.Y.), from 1969 to 1971 and served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney (S.D.N.Y.) from 1971 to 1976. He was in private practice in New York City from 1976 to 2011. He is the author of The Fugitive Slave Rescue Trial of Robert Morris: Benjamin Robbins Curtis on the Road to Dred Scott.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1616195452
• ISBN 13: 9781616195458
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 134
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible