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Law and race in Early America

In this article Haywood in Kairys (1998 , observes that past and developed laws in America date back to racial matters and discrimination . He reveals examples of earlier legal cases where race was the major determinant of the jurisdiction to be given by the legal system . Kansas 1855 presents a case where a similar offense by people of different race was granted different penalties . The history in the seventeenth century in colonial America

recalls that there was racial equality with no clear definition of slave by race . Ironically , after colonialism , racial disparity emerged with the founding of the legal system and laws out of the sheer desire to economically benefit from the exploitation of black labor through the creation of institution of American chattel slavery . Law played a major role up to revolution with no major legal changes even after the revolution . The new constitution embossed slave trade , guaranteed the release of fugitive slaves and did not recognize blacks as full human beings in taxation and representation politically

The post revolutionary laws provided legislation of : slaves , racial interactions of whites / blacks and provided dominance of the whites over the blacks thus not recognizing the rights of blacks through restrictions to education , employment , and so on . The case of Dred Scott v . Sanford of 1857 brought criticism on the legal injustice and formed the background for civil war which though led to the abolition of slave...

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