The Law Of Freedom And Bondage In The United States Volume 1

Author : John C. Hurd
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ISBN 13 : 9781330470206
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book The Law of Freedom and Bondage in the United States, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint) written by John C. Hurd and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-28 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Law of Freedom and Bondage in the United States, Vol. 1 of 2 On the publication of a volume whose title indicates its connection with questions arising from the existence of negro slavery in the United States, a recollection of the number and variety of the existing works on that subject will suggest the propriety of some prefatory exposition of the author's point of view. Although the questions considered in this work are not frequently matters of controversy in courts of law, and derive their principal interest from their connection with objects of more political and public importance than are the litigated rights of private persons, yet it is designed and published as a legal or juristical treatise, or one which, if not technical, may still with strictness be called a "law book." It is intended to present statements of law only, without the introduction of any considerations of the effect of such law on the moral or religious, the social or political interests of the nation or of the several States. Having this character exclusively, it follows that the proposed work cannot be expected to contain any thing essentially new: simply because, if such, it could not be law. The merit of a treatise of this kind must always consist in presenting no proposition without adequate reference or deduction, showing that the same has already been said, or, at least, if not said, has been implied in former juridical expositions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.