Lee B. Wilson, "Bonds of Empire: The English Origins of Slave Law in South Carolina and British Plantation America, 1660–1783" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
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Equity in Law in the Early Modern Period
In early modern england and in the american colonial context, equity also meant a set of rules and procedures. The court of chancery has religious connotations but it really becomes a particular area of practice to and a very rulebound area of practice. And as i was reading all the chancery records from south carolina, ecause there's a wonderful manuscript collection at the south carolina department of archives, in history, slaves kept popping up. No matter the type of dispute, there were almost always enslaved people involved in the dispute,. As objects being claimed by colonists, for example, in an inheritance dispute.
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