Campbell, James M. <br/><br/>
Slavery on trial :  race, class, and criminal justice in Antebellum Richmond, Virginia / 
James M. Campbell. 
 - Gainesville, FL :  University Press of Florida,  c2007. 
 - xiii, 264 p. :  ill., map ;  24 cm. 
 - New perspectives on the history of the South .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-254) and index. 
<br/><br/>Abandoned to causes of corruption : slave life and policing in the city -- "An evil which demands a speedy remedy" : white criminality in an urban slave society -- "The victim of prejudice and hasty consideration" : slave trials, clemency, and punishment -- "With these poor rogues their judge had never dined" : honor, law, and the trial and punishment of white criminals -- The "stigma, of the deepest degradation, was fixed upon the whole race" : free African Americans and the criminal justice system. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780813030913 (alk. paper) 0813030919 (alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2007013477 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Discrimination in criminal justice administration--History--Virginia--Richmond--19th century.<br/>Slaves--Social conditions--Virginia--Richmond--19th century.<br/>Freedmen--Social conditions--Virginia--Richmond--19th century.<br/>Richmond (Va.)--Race relations--History--19th century.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HV 9955  / C188s 2007 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>364.9755/45109034