Margaret A. Burnham - By Hands Now Known

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Title: By Hands Now Known
Author: Margaret A. Burnham
Narrator: Diana Blue
Format: mp3
Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
Release date: 09-27-22
Ratings: 4.7 out of 5 stars, 46 ratings
Genres: Law

Publisher's Summary: Margaret A. Burnham challenges our understanding of the Jim Crow era by exploring the relationship between formal law and background legal norms in harrowing cases between 1920 and 1960. From rendition, the legal process by which states make claims to other states for the return of their citizens, to battles over state and federal jurisdiction and the outsize role of local sheriffs in enforcing racial hierarchy, Burnham maps the criminal legal system of the mid-twentieth-century South, and traces the line from slavery to the legal structures of this period—and through to today.