Colonial Labor Systems & Law
The labor discipline systems of British colonial North America, slave
and free, set the conditions of social and legal development for half
a millennium. We consider how they began, and how the law grew with
them.
Readings
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Assigned
George Lee Haskins,
Law and Authority in Early Massachusetts (1968), chapters 3 to 7
Eben Moglen, Settling the Law (1993), The Law of Settlement: Land Law and the Manors
E. Morgan,
American Slavery, American Freedom (1975), pp. 108-180
Suggested
Notes and Materials
Projects
Wikipedia Article on
Property Law in Colonial New York
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