Black trials : citizenship from the beginnings of slavery to the end of caste / Mark S. Weiner.
Publication details: New York : Alfred A. Knopf ; New York : Distributed by Random House, c2004.Edition: 1st edDescription: xvii, 421 p. ; 25 cmISBN:- 0375409815
- 342.7308/73 22
- KF4757 .W45 2004
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"Published simultaneously in Canada"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [373]-403) and index.
Let us make a tryal : Joseph Hanno and Cotton Mather, Boston, 1721 -- This villainous conspiracy : the great Negro plot, New York, 1741 -- Air too pure : Somerset's case, London, 1772 -- I should not turn her out : Crandall v. Connecticut, Hartford, 1833 -- All we want is make us free : the Amistad, Washington, 1841 -- Christian witness : Jones v. Van Zandt, Cincinnati, 1847 -- The law of blood : John Brown, Virginia, 1859 -- Original purity : the Ku Klux Klan trials, South Carolina, 1871 -- In the nature of things : the civil rights cases, California, 1883, and Plessy v. Ferguson, Louisiana, 1896 -- Black, white, and red : the Scottsboro boys, Alabama, 1931 -- Hearts and minds : Brown v. Board of Education, Kansas, 1954 -- To die for the people : Huey Newton, California, 1968 -- Confirmation : Anita Hill and Clarence Thomas, Washington, 1991 -- Statistics and citizenship : Mumia Abu-Jamal, Philadelphia, 2001.