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List of Illustrations xi Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 Sally E. Hadden and Patricia Hagler Minter Part I: Colonial and Early National Legal Regimes In My Mother’s House: Dowry Property and Female Inheritance Patterns in Spanish Florida 19 Susan Richbourg Parker The Law and Order Campaign in New Orleans, 1763–1765: A Comparative View 45 Thomas N. Ingersoll “Using the Faculties Conceded to Her by Law”: Slavery, Law, and Agency in Spanish New Orleans, 1763–1803 65 Jennifer M. Spear South Carolina’s Grand Jury Presentments: The Eighteenth-Century Experience 89 Sally E. Hadden Guarding Republican Liberty: St. George Tucker and Judging in Federal Virginia 111 Jessica K. Lowe Part II: Law and Society in the Long Nineteenth Century The Shades of Loyalty: Elisha W. Chester and the Cherokee Removal 137 Tim Alan Garrison Contents x Contents The Material Conditions of Dependency: The Hidden History of Free Women’s Control of Property in the Early Nineteenth-Century South 171 Laura F. Edwards Democracy, and Lynching, in America 193 Christopher R. Waldrep The World Made by Laws and the Laws Made by the World of the Old South 219 Alfred L. Brophy Peaceful Revolution and Popular Sovereignty: Reassessing the Constitutionality of Southern Secession 241 Roman J. Hoyos Strategic Litigation and the Death of Reconstruction 265 Cynthia Nicoletti Homestead Exemption and Southern Legal Culture 289 James W. Ely Jr. Part III: Constitutionalism, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties A Place for Themselves in the Modern World: Southern Women and Alcohol in the Age of Prohibition, 1912–1933 317 Lisa Lindquist Dorr Race, Property, and Negotiated Space in the American South: A Reconsideration of Buchanan v. Warley 345 Patricia Hagler Minter Race, Law, and Southern Public Higher Education, 1860s–1960s 369 Peter Wallenstein The Southern Roots of the Reapportionment Revolution 393 Charles L. Zelden Defending the Right to Discriminate: The Libertarian Challenge to the Civil Rights Movement 417 Christopher W. Schmidt Contributors 447 Index 453 ...