Sample bibliography

Primary sources:

Becker, Robert A., editor. "John F. Grimke's Eyewitness Account of the Camden Court Riot, April 27-28, 1785." South Carolina Historical Magazine 83 (1982): 209-213.

Binns, John. Binns’ Justice: A Magistrate’s Daily Companion. Philadelphia, 1842.

Drinker, Elizabeth. The Diary of Elizabeth Drinker: The Life Cycle of an Eighteenth Century Woman. Elaine F. Crane, ed. Amherst: Northeastern University Press, 1997.

Fisher, Sidney George. A Philadelphia Perspective: The Diary of Sidney George Fisher Covering the Years 1834-1874. Philadelphia: Pennsylvania Historical Society, 1967.

Gregorie, Anne King. "Micah Adolphus Clark's Visit to South Carolina in 1857." South Carolina Historical Magazine 54 (1953): 15-31.

Grimké, Thomas Smith. An Address on the Character and Objects of Science. Charleston, 1827.

Grimké, Thomas Smith. Oration on the Advantages to be derived from the Introduction of the Bible and of Sacred Literature as Essential Parts of All Education. New Haven, 1830.

Hammond, James Henry. Secret and Sacred: The Diaries of James Henry Hammond, a Southern-Slaveholder. Carol Bleser, ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988).

Harrison, Eliza Cope. ed. Best Companions: Letters of Eliza Middleton Fisher and her Mother, Mary Hering Middleton, from Charleston, Philadelphia and Newport, 1839-1846. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2001.

Hayne, Robert Young. Speeches of Hayne and Webster in the United States Senate on the Resolution of Mr. Foote, January 1830. Boston: A.T. Hotchkiss & W.P. Fetridge, 1853.

Hoeflich, Michael H. Editor. The Gladsome Light of Jurisprudence: Learning the Law in England and the United States in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. New York: Greenwood Press, 1988.

Lee, J. Edward and Ron Chepesiuk. Editors. South Carolina in the Civil War: The Confederate Experience in Letters and Diaries. Jefferson: McFarland, 2000.

[Legaré, Hugh Swinton.] "Classical Learning." The Southern Review 1 (Feb. & March 1828): 1-49.

Lippard, George. The Quaker City, or the Monks of Monk Hall: A Romance of Philadelphia Life, Mystery, and Crime. Reprint. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1995.

Mickle, Isaac. A Gentleman of Much Promise: The Diary of Isaac Mickle. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1977.

Moore, John Hammond. Editor. "The Ariel Abbot Journals, A Yankee Preacher in Charleston." South Carolina Historical Magazine 68 (1967): 51-73, 115-139, 232-254.

Oliphant, Mary C. Smith. Letters of William Gilmore Simms. Vol. 1-3. Columbia: South Carolina, 1952.

O'Neall, John Belton. Biographical Sketches of the Bench and Bar of South Carolina. 2 vols. Charleston: S. G. Courtney, 1859.

Report of the Trial of Martin Posey for the Murder of his Wife, Matilda Posey, and his Slave, Appling. Edgefield, SC: Edgefield Advertiser, 1850.

Shirmer, Jacob Frederick. "The Schirmer Diary." South Carolina History Magazine 67-74 (1966-1974).

Starr, Raymond. Editor. "Letters from John Lewis Gervais to Henry Laurens, 1777-1778." South Carolina Historical Magazine 66 (1965): 15-37.

Strong George Templeton. The Diary of George Templeton Strong: Young Man of New York, 1835-1849. New York: McMillan Co., 1952.

T.C. “Coloured Marriages.” Carolina Law Journal 1 (1830): 92-102.

Taylor, Frances Wallace, Catherine Taylor Matthews, and J. Tray Power. Editors. The Leverett Letters: Correspondence of a South Carolina Family. Columbia:

Wilson, John Lyde. The Code of Honor, or, Rules for the Government of Principals and Seconds in Dueling. Charleston, 1838.

Secondary sources:

Abel, Richard L., ed. The Politics of Informal Justice. 2 vols. New York: Academic Press, 1982.

Adler, Jeffrey. Yankee Merchants and the Making of the Urban West: The Rise and Fall of Antebellum St. Louis New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991.

Allgor, Catherine. Parlor Politics: In Which the Women of Washington and Help Build a City and a Government. Charlotte: University of Virginia Press, 2000.

Armao, Agnes Orsatti. "In Search of a New God: Law in Nineteenth-Century America." Journal of Legal History [Great Britain] 1983 4(2): 38-55.

Atkins, Jonathan M. "Race, Freedom, and the Confederate Cause: C. R. Batteau and the Argument for Southern Separation." Journal of East Tennessee History 70 (1998): 34-61.

Bellows, Barbara. "'Insanity is the Disease of Civilization': The Founding of the South Carolina Lunatic Asylum." South Carolina Historical Magazine 82 (1981): 263-272.

Bernstein, Barton J. "Southern Politics and Attempts to Reopen the African Slave Trade." Journal of Negro History 51 (1966): 16-35.

Blumenthal, Susanna L. "Law and the Modern Mind: The Rise of Consciousness in American Legal Culture, 1800-1930." Ph.D. dissertation, Yale University, 2001.

Carroll, Mark M. “Public Morals, Masculinity, and Religion in Jefferson’s Louisiana.” Paper presented at Annual Conference, Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, July 2003.

Carter, Christine Jacobson. Editor. The Diary of Dolly Lunt Burge, 1848-1879. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1997.

Crane, Virginia Glenn. "Two Women, White and Brown, in the South Carolina Court of Equity, 1842-1845." South Carolina Historical Magazine 96 (1995): 198-220.

Dale, Elizabeth. "A Different Sort of Justice: The Informal Courts of Public Opinion in Antebellum South Carolina." South Carolina Law Review 54 (Spring 2003): 627-647.

Dale, Elizabeth. “‘Social Equality does Not Exist Among Themselves, Nor Among Us’: Baylies v. Curry and Civil Rights in Chicago, 1888.” American Historical Review 102 (1997): 311-339.

Dale, Elizabeth. Debating—and Creating—Authority: The Failure of a Constitutional Ideal, Massachusetts Bay, 1929-1649. Ashgate Publishing, 2001.

Dale, Elizabeth. The Rule of Justice: The People of Chicago versus Zephyr Davis. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2001.

Daly, John Patrick. When Slavery was Called Freedom: Evangelicalism, Proslavery, and the Causes of the Civil War. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2002.

Einhorn, Robin L. “Patrick Henry’s Case Against the Constitution: The Structural Problems with Slavery.” Journal of the Early Republic 22 (Winter 2003): 549-573.

Ellis, Richard. The Jeffersonian Crisis: Courts and Politics in the Young Republic. New York: Oxford University Press, 1971.

Ellis, Richard. The Union at Risk: Jacksonian Democracy, States' Rights, and the Nullification Crisis. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.

Epstein, Barbara Leslie. The Politics of Domesticity: Women, Evangelism, and Temperance in Nineteenth-Century America. Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 1981.

Evans, Sara. Born for Liberty: A History of Women in America. New York: Free Press, 1989.

Faust, Drew Gilpin. A Sacred Circle: The Dilemma of the Intellectual in the Old South, 1840-1860. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1977.

Foner, Eric. "Rights and the Constitution in Black Life During the Civil War and Reconstruction." Journal of American History 74 (1987): 863-8883.

Ford, Lacy K. "Recovering the Republic: Calhoun, South Carolina and the Concurrent Majority." South Carolina Historical Magazine89 (1988): 146-159.

Friedman, Lawrence M. Crime and Punishment in America. New York: Basic Books, 1983.

Fritz, Christian G. "Popular Sovereignty, Vigilantism, and the Constitutional Right of Revolution." Pacific Historical Review 63 (1994): 39-66.