Front Matter
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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Table of Contents
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INTRODUCTION: The Many Legalities of Colonization: A Manifesto of Destiny for Early American Legal History
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[PART ONE Introduction]
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Discovery, Grant, Charter, Conquest, or Purchase:: John Adams on the Legal Basis for English Possession of North America
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Salamanders and Sons of God:: The Culture of Appeal in Early New England
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“Rigid and Inclement”:: Origins of the Jamaica Slave Laws of the Seventeenth Century
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Legal Fictions and the Rule(s) of Law:: The Jeffersonian Critique of Common-Law Adjudication
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[PART TWO Introduction]
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“Justice Will Be Done Us”:: Algonquian Demands for Reciprocity in the Courts of European Settlers
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“Lest We Go in Search of Relief to Our Lands and Our Nation”:: Customary Justice and Colonial Law in the New Mexico Borderlands, 1680–1821
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Customary Laws of Marriage:: Legal Pluralism, Colonialism, and Narragansett Indian Identity in Eighteenth-Century Rhode Island
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[PART THREE Introduction]
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“Liberty to Complaine”:: Servant Petitions in Maryland, 1652–1797
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“As Though I My Self Was Pr[e]sent”:: Virginia Women with Power of Attorney
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Women and the Political Culture of Eighteenth-Century Virginia:: Gender, Property Law, and Voting Rights
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Age of Reason?: Children, Testimony, and Consent in Early America
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[PART FOUR Introduction]
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Was There a Calvinist Type of Patriarchy?: New Haven Colony Reconsidered in the Early Modern Context
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The Limits of Authority:: Courts, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Middle Colonies, 1670–1710
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Farmers in Court:: Orange County, North Carolina, 1750–1776
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The Long Road to Vidal:: Charity Law and State Formation in Early America
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AFTERWORD: The Death and Transfiguration of Early American Legal History
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INDEX
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NOTES ON THE CONTRIBUTORS
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