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Pdf The Demands of Justice: Enslaved Women, Capital Crime, and Clemency in Early
Virginia FREE EBOOK

Pdf The Demands of Justice: Enslaved Women, Capital Crime, and Clemency in Early Virginia FREE
EBOOK
Pdf The Demands of
Justice: Enslaved
Women, Capital Crime,
and Clemency in Early
Virginia FREE EBOOK
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Award-winning historian Tamika Y. Nunley has unearthed the stories of enslaved Black women charged by
their owners with poisoning, theft, murder, infanticide, and arson. While free Black and white people
accused of capital crimes received a hearing, trial, and, if convicted, an opportunity to appeal, none of these
options were available to enslaved people. Conviction was final, and only the state or owners could spare
their accused chattel of punishment by death. For enslaved women in Virginia, clemency was not
uncommon, but Nunley shows why this act ultimately benefitted owners and punished the accused with sale
outside of the state as the best possible outcome.Demonstrating how crimes, convictions, and clemency
functioned within a slave society that upheld the property interests of white Virginians, Nunley reveals the
frequency with which owners preferred to keep the accused in bondage, which allowed them, behind the veil
of paternalism, to continue to benefit from Black women's labor. This so-called clemency also sought to rob
Black women of the power they exercised when they committed capital crimes. The testimonies that Nunley
has collected and analyzed offer compelling glimpses of the self-identities forged by Black women as they
attempted to resist enslavement and the limits of justice available to them in the antebellum courtroom.